Word: cameramen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White-haired at 63, he was still burly, still erect. Going to the witness chair, he walked into the glare of cameramen's klieg lights with the air of a man expecting complete vindication. For two days, with the flat authority of the quarterdeck, he hammered away at the central theme of his defense-that the Navy had kept him so inadequately informed that he had been "misled" into believing an attack on Hawaii was "not imminent or probable...
Lady Astor, 66, walked down a tiny fruit steamer's gangplank into a stage-idol's welcome in Manhattan, gave swarming reporters and cameramen a performance to remember. Wrapped in mink and hung with diamond-&-sapphire earrings, she got For She's a Jolly Good Fellow from the ship's crewmen, cried back happily, "What more could a girl ask?" and faced the press. "I'm an extinct volcano," said she, but soon became active...
...Question. Pappy was still undismayed. Back in Los Angeles again, he carried his bride across the threshold three times for news cameramen, served reporters double bourbons, and fired back: "Any romance I carried on with Mrs. Malcolmson was carried on by mail. I had overseas nerves." And what, he wanted to know, had happened to the $18,000 in property and allotment checks he had given Lucy in trust for his three children by a former wife...
Seated with Senator Barkley were four other Senators and five Representatives. Klieg lights glared on the witness chairs. Cameramen were poised for action; there were seats for 100 reporters...
...True Glory (War Department-Columbia), an official U.S.-British film, was produced by England's Captain Carol Reed, America's Captain Garson Kanin, and any number of talented assistants. Of the United Nations combat cameramen who shot the film, 32 were killed, 16 were reported missing, and 101 were wounded. It is one of the most difficult collaborative efforts in movie history-and a highly successful one. In a word, it is what the moviemakers constantly strain for and seldom achieve: colossal...