Word: cameraman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Five correspondents went in at Betio with the first waves of assault battalions. They were United Pressman Richard Johnston, Associated Pressman William Hippie, Don Senick of Fox Movietone News, A.P. Cameraman Frank Filan and I. All saw men killed beside them in landing boats or on the beach. Senick alone suffered injury; a Jap bullet hit a tree under which he was sitting and dropped...
...Dick Johnston got his stories off first, and he got a clear one-day beat. Swarthy little Cameraman Filan was unlucky, for when he dropped into the water from his landing boat, his camera was ruined...
...shot at lots of them. Yes, his own planes had been hit, but nothing out of the usual. Yes, he was a little scared. No, he didn't think his training film was any better than anybody else's: "I'm not exactly a professional cameraman...
Police Reporter Tony Marino was rushed with a cameraman to the Lonergan apartment, on traditionally (but not actually) prim Beekman Hill. Earthy, fire-hydrant-shaped Al Binder, who "knows everybody" and who had come in from vacation for his mail, was told to get Patricia's picture. He scored a screaming beat, an exclusive photo which the News splashed over Page One. Before it was over, 20 News cameramen, 20 reporters were on the story...
...start as a cameraman in 1923, when he was hired by International News Photos at $9 a week and bought his first Speed Graphic with snitched "train money." In 20 years Samuel Schulman has covered transatlantic flights, big murders (like the Lindbergh case), national political conventions, revolutions (in Cuba), war. Last week, in a 234-page book called Where's Sammy? (Random House; $2.50), he told the story of his life. (The book was really written by International News Service's Bob Considine, who also "edited" Captain Ted Lawson's recent Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo...