Word: cameramen
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...Howard Hughes roared on, demanding "equal rights," and got a big hand from the audience. With that, red-faced Homer Ferguson ordered the room cleared of all but reporters and cameramen...
...Cameramen chattered away: "'Move Tojo's head a little to the right. . . . Hold it ... swell. ... I want a shot of Tojo holding the revolver ... do you mind pressing the gun into his hand? . . .Flashbulbs exploded. The photographers crawled all over the room. They stood on chairs. They lay full length on the floor. They crossed and uncrossed Tojo's legs." One thought his picture would be improved if Tojo's eyes were open. He bawled loudly: "Hey, Tojo!" and Tojo slowly opened his eyes. "That's right cooed the cameraman. "Now, hold...
...television announcers, and Stanton learned the tricks by trial & error. Before many weeks, he was supplying rules and statistics for bewildered sports fans, ignoring the obvious, calling an occasional play wrong to delight armchair experts, devising a set of silent signals and on-the-air cues for his cameramen and spotters, keeping his commentary at a slow pace so that the cameras could follow without jerky images. His friends helped out by bar-hopping and giving him reports of audience reaction to his sportcasting. For a while, he had an uneasy sensation that he was becoming a victim of technocracy...
...President was on hand to meet him. As the band struck up Hail to the Chief, they walked together over to the waiting microphones, posed for the cameramen, exchanged greetings. Said the President: "I am most happy to receive you back. I am very well pleased with what you have been doing. I know that when you make your report to the country the people will also be pleased...
...President drove through cheering crowds to throw out the first ball at the postponed Senators-Yankees baseball opener. To the consternation of newsmen who had billed him as a southpaw, Harry Truman first tossed out a blooper with his right arm, obligingly threw another with his left for the cameramen. Then he settled back to sip a Coke in the bright spring sunlight, unexpectedly popped up half an inning early for the traditional seventh inning stretch. Final score: Yankees, 7; Senators...