Word: cameramen
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...Senate committee room last week, the newsreel floodlights beat down for short intervals on the witness chair, snapped off again as the cameramen waited for another shot. In the floods' full glare, strange specimens came sharply into public view, squirmed uncomfortably in the light, waited for the word to drop back into their own shadowy world. It was a world of conspiracy and secrecy, of Communist and informer, where the law was and is Lenin's dictum: it is necessary to "resort to all sorts of schemes and stratagems, employ illegitimate methods, conceal the truth...
...fall was that it furnished further proof that Nationalist troops still could not or would not fight effectively. More than 400 miles to the northeast, in Formosa, invasion day for Nationalist China's last citadel seemed closer. As a victory fillip, the Peking radio reported that Russian newsreel cameramen were filming Lin Piao's conquest of Hainan...
When Cinemactress Ava Gardner stepped from a plane at a Madrid airport, she played a supporting role to a fellow passenger: a timid-looking young man in a brown suit, yellow tie and outsized sun glasses. Ignoring the movie queen, a score of waiting dignitaries and cameramen rushed forward to greet ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia, who had arrived to pay his respects to Francisco Franco...
...revivalist only five years ago, and his big break did not come until last fall in California. His Los Angeles audiences were no more than moderately large until his activities suddenly attracted the attention of William Randolph Hearst. At a meeting one evening, says Graham, he noticed "reporters and cameramen crawling all over the place. One of them told me they had had a memo from Mr. Hearst which said Tuff Graham,' and the two Hearst papers gave me great publicity. The others soon followed...
...with Mrs. Millard Tydings, wife of the Senator from Maryland, then dashed over to the Mayflower to meet Bess Truman at the launching of an annual money drive for the National Symphony Orchestra. It was the first public meeting between Mrs. Truman and Mrs. Barkley. Both smiled expertly for cameramen...