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...tramp a stern significance into the warning words of statesmen. Besides a visual integration of a taut European situation, this March of Time edition contains: 1) the dramatic crisis in the office of the New York Daily News on the night of the Hauptmann verdict; 2) an electric light bulb breaking, milk dropping into a pan, photographed by a camera 150 times faster than the human eye; 3) the crash of the Mohawk and Talisman off the New Jersey shore; 4) the story of Convict Huddie Ledbetter ("Lead Belly") whose Negro songs get him pardoned for murder...
...Thereupon he went out to enlarge the circle of his acquaintances. As a professional photographer he is kind. In manner his pictures approach the clandestine snapshots of candid cameramen with their high speed lenses, but Jerome Zerbe uses only a standard news photographer's camera with synchronized flash bulb. None of the celebrities he has caught was photographed eating, yawning, scratching ears or picking noses. Some of them were drunk, but all knew their pictures were being taken and seemed pleased...
...000th visitor of 1934, she was presented with a five-acre farm and enough clothes, clocks, books and food to fill a truck. THE APOTHEOSIS OF MAN-MADE LIGHT began at 10 p. m. At midnight Rufus Cutler Dawes pulled a switch, blacking out every electric bulb in the grounds. Immediately the dark sky flared gorgeously with 500,000 bursting pyrotechnic bombs. Taps were sounded. Thus one day last week A Century of Progress came to the end of its second and last year as the nation's biggest entertainment feature...
Upstairs Mrs. Speer was putting their three young children to bed when she heard a sudden crash downstairs, like an exploding light bulb. When she got downstairs she found her husband with blood streaming from his arm and breast. There were two jagged holes in the window...
...human eye, the part appears to be standing still. Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have used mercury vapor stroboscopes in connection with a super-fast camera to record the impact of a golf club with the ball, the splash of a drop of milk, a shattering glass bulb, a cat whipping over in midair...