Word: cameraman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Addis Ababa the receipt by a U. S. cameraman of a jocular cablegram from his home office, "Presume Addis next; suggest you pick out shelter now," leaked out to cause virtual panic as thousands of natives grabbed their rifles and bolted pell-mell out of the Capital, thinking it was about to be bombed...
...Brooklyn police bureau of the New York Daily News a staff photographer named Robert Flint Cranston got word that a woman had been killed in a traffic accident about three miles away. In fifteen minutes Cameraman Cranston was on the scene of what promised to be a dull, routine assignment. The street corner was jammed with Brooklynites pushing and shoving to get a glimpse of Rose Samanoff's corpse lying on the pavement. Police reserves arrived, shooed off all but newsmen and one man who leaned against a doorway and wept. Photographer Cranston saw him approach the body, stare...
...Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia ambled about Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, squinted critically at some 300 pictures of the Press Photographers' Association exhibit. When they had seen everything, they decided that the best spot newspicture in the lot was that of the sorrowing Samanoff, awarded first prize to Cameraman Cranston...
...Houston, Tex. month ago Scripps-HowarcTs up & coming Press bought its photographer, Francis ("Nig") Miller, a Zeiss Contax camera, turned him loose on the city to get "candid" shots. Bold little Cameraman Miller went about snapping the usual pictures of backstage doings and unwary citizens. His best layout was ''Houston at Lunch Time," displaying Houstonians munching salad, picking their teeth...
...morning last week Ed. M. Pooley, the Press's managing editor, sent his candid cameraman to Houston's well-equipped Memorial Hospital to get some operation pictures. Robert Garland Jolly, the hospital's publicity-wise superintendent, gave Photographer Miller a warm welcome, clapped him into a sterile white gown, cap and rubber gloves, ushered him into the operating room. There he snapped a series of run-of-the-mill slicings while Superintendent Jolly, surgeons and nurses gave him every assistance. Toward the end of the morning, as a patient was being wheeled away, Superintendent Jolly turned...