Word: cameramen
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...When he was crowned King Ak-Sar-Ben (Nebraska spelled backwards), an honor given each year to a leading citizen of Omaha, he decked himself out in silk knee breeches, a 35-lb. train, and a crown perched on the side of his head. His own battery of cameramen were on hand to take his picture. So attired, Jeffers presided over, and paid for, a dinner so lavish that Ak-Sar-Ben hastily barred such parties in the future to keep their new kings from going bankrupt...
...Freight cars rattled eastward across Ger many. Russian and Polish repatriates were packed in until there was no room to sit. Some, looking happy for cameramen, sunned themselves (see cut), waved at Red Army soldiers, ducked when the train crawled through a tunnel...
...next 30 seconds of full eclipse, the feverish cameramen got a movie record and 36 still pictures, some in color, of the corona. Exactly two minutes and 30 seconds later, the sun, smiling on Dr. Stewart's happy party, disappeared behind the clouds again...
...getters go mad with civic joy. A general and reporters and newsreel cameramen will arrive the next day; their town is on the national map and the profits, they believe, can be enormous. They whip up banners on which Benny's name appears much smaller than that of his birthplace. But they can't find Benny's family, to receive the medal and act as peg for the exploitation...
...remarkable honesty and excellence, honor goes to the Army; to Major John Huston, who directed it and who wrote and speaks its splendid narrative; and to the six cameramen under his command...