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Recent edits to Carl Mydans
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CARL MYDANS: A longer, amusing version of my earlier edit submission
NOTE TO THE EDITORS: HERE IS AN ELABORATION OF MY EDIT IN CASE YOU HAVE SPACE: The couple were covering the effects of the Japanese invasion of China for Time-Life, and they happened to be aboard the gunboat U.S.S. Panay when Japanese aircraft attacked it in 1937.

Shelley's eyewitness account of the attack with Carl's action photographs was so serendipitous a boost for LIFE Magazine's rise in popularity that some wags claimed that publisher Henry Luce had secretly arranged the attack, as William Randolph Hearst was alleged to have arranged the sinking of the battleship Maine in Havana harbor. As Luce was also a fervent backer of Chiang Kai-shek in his forlorn defense against the Japanese invasion, the propaganda benefit to his interests was a twofer. My contemporaneous reading of the 1937 LIFE Magazine article, and barroom gossip by LIFE Magazine veterans in Alexandria, Virginia, circa 1978.

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