Word: camera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other Secret Service operatives, were chosen be cause they do not resemble detectives, can wear morning coats and silk hats without looking like politicians in a St. Patrick's Day parade. It will be noticed that when they are photographed with the President they never look at the camera, always at the crowd, with their hands folded across their chests, one gripping the butt of a revolver inside the coat over the heart. Col. Starling's job (he is a Kentucky Governor's colonel ) is the delicate and critical one of being advance man on Presidential trips...
...pains might indicate cancer. But with x-ray there was no way to tell until the cancer should attain a considerable mass. Last week Dr. John Falenks of Manhattan went to the physicians' aid with something new to the U. S. Named "Gastro-Photo," it was a stomach camera invented in Vienna by F. G. Bach and Dr. D. J. Heilpern, already in use at the University of Vienna's Wenckel Bach Clinic...
...Swallow," said Dr. Falenks. Henry Harrington's sharp adam's apple bobbed twice and the camera was in his stomach. Dr. Falenks squeezed a rubber bulb in his left hand, sent a puff of air down the tube to distend the patient's stomach walls. Then he pressed a button in his right hand. A metal shutter clicked open the 16 pinholes, Henry Harrington's dark interior flared up with the brilliance of 20,000 candles and in 1/120th of a second 16 views of his stomach were registered on the films...
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. returned from Europe last September, newsreel cameramen cornered him on deck. He ducked, grinned, protested: "No, honestly, I'm camera shy." When cameramen in a boat edged up to the shell in which Roosevelt Jr. was practicing with the Harvard freshman crew one week later, he did not grin. Barked...
...ducked forward, but too late. Grinning, Cameraman Corvelli trotted toward an exit. In a flash Roosevelt Jr., boiling mad, was out of his seat and at the cameraman's heels. He over-took him in the lobby, spilled him to the floor, jumped up & down on the camera. Police intervened, companions led Junior Roosevelt away...