Word: camera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attained a U. S. circulation record of 1,556,000 by front-paging a photograph of the husband-killer in the electric chair. That picture, called by Editor & Publisher "the most sensational ever seen in America's press," was obtained by Photographer Tom Howard, who wore a tiny camera strapped to his ankle, had a remote-control cable release in his pocket, gave the film a six-second exposure from his seat twelve feet from the chair. Newshawk Howard was given a $100 bonus, a trip to Havana for his pains...
...Herald & Examiner, the pictures represented a notable scoop. City Editor John Dienhart had long had a standing order from hard-boiled Managing Editor Victor Watson for an electrocution picture. To the execution of Murderer Thompson he sent tall, personable Cameraman William Vandivert, with a candid camera concealed in the crotch of his trousers. Squatting on the floor in front of some 50 standing and kneeling witnesses behind a wire-mesh glass partition, Vandivert caught the writhing body, the contorted hands, the black-hooded face of Gerald Thompson, won for himself a small bonus, a smaller raise...
...Vandivert used a Contax camera, Eastman Super X film, made eight 1/5-sec. exposures at F 1.5 from...
...must be, to command that salary, he is doubling in a large hotel or night club at God knows what figure; he will undoubtedly play in picture houses: make a movie short or appear in a full-length picture; and his his value as a cigaret or camera endorser will probably not be overlooked...
...Oklahoma farmband, Pinky Tomlin can look either forty or his actual twenties, depending on the camera used and the amount of re-touching. He was a professed hick and already losing his tin, flame-colored hair rapidly when Delta Tau Delta at the University of Oklahoma pledged him. That made no difference; the brothers hoped to tame their alfalfa cowboy. In the meantime, he went to work leading a college orchestra. That got him three meals day low grades, and a reputation for having a singing voice with a twang to it. In spite of the Delta, he remained...