Word: cameraful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rosy has been photographing ships since he was a twelve-year-old on Manhattan's Lower East Side. With five other boys, he raised $1.25 to buy a Premo 4-by-5 camera from a pawnshop. When it came his turn to use it, he took a picture of a square-rigger moored off Manhattan's South Street. The shot won $5 in a photo contest, and when Rosy quit day school a year later to help support his family, he turned naturally to photography. He became a hustling freelancer who got a beat on the Baltimore fire...
...Such a Compulsion." Boats were always Rosy's favorite target, but he did not always have his present preferred status; J. P. Morgan once smashed Rosy's camera with a cane when Rosy tried to sneak a shot of the old yachtsman coming ashore from his famed Corsair. Photographing yachts in all kinds of weather, Rosy has hung by one hand from a halyard and thudded his skull against Foto's deck, but has never gone overboard...
...course; they will face their classes with lab books still only half written, texts still partly mimeographed, experiments still to be polished or replaced by completely new demonstrations (the University of Minnesota's summer institute came up with two methods of studying wave motion, one with a Land camera and stroboscopic light, the other with magnetic tape). By fall of 1959, when the M.I.T. committee and the National Science Foundation hope to have trained 750 more teachers, the revolution in physics teaching will be accepted matter-of-factly by some 50,000 high school students. But the chain-reaction...
...same is true in cameras. Through the efforts of such topnotch firms as Nikon and Canon, whose cameras are cheaper and almost as good as the best German makes, Japan now enjoys a $6,800,000 export market in the U.S. The Japanese are convinced that it could be bigger still were it not for dozens of other camera makers, who get around export regulations by labeling their third-rate products "toys." Once Japanese businessmen winked at the practice. Today, it aggravates them so that Matsushita Electric Industries Co., Japan's biggest electrical-communications maker, withdrew from...
Wilder and Scriptwriter John Michael Hayes coat this slapstick with lavish layers of roguish dialogue. If Actress Booth blinks at the camera and confides, "Money is like manure-it's not worth anything unless it's spread around," Actor Ford is there a moment later to lament: "Oh for the days when women were sold for a few cows." Chief Clerk Tony Perkins, who seems to be trying to recapture Jimmy Stewart's lost youth, paws the ground and in that familiar marble-mouthed drawl reckons that he might try kissing a girl...