Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Primo Camera, monstrous Italian heavyweight: a bout at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn; by knocking out one Pat Redmond, unknown and incapable Irishman, in the first round. Both giants moved ponderously about the ring. Camera pushing his great fist, Redmond pawing helplessly for less than a minute; then Camera upset his opponent with a well-aimed right to the jaw. Redmond arose unsteadily at the count of eight, went down and out a minute later under a curving left hook that literally wrapped about his jaw and chin. ¶ Aubrey Boomer. British pro for the St. Cloud Club, near Paris: the French...
...importance they were doubtless resolved last month when he saw the front page of the tabloid New York Mirror almost entirely occupied by a photograph of his wife. A wily cameraman gained admittance to her hospital by bringing a large bouquet. In the bouquet was hidden a camera...
...much the same position a year ago when, after making her second talkie (A Lady Surrenders), she returned to the stage whence she had been coaxed by Carl Laemmle Jr., who admired her in Death Takes a Holiday. Her face, not conventionally beautiful, photographs better when turned toward the camera than in profile. The charm of her low voice perfectly survives recording. Born Rose Kefer in Manhattan 25 years ago of musician parents (her father, a cellist; her mother, a singer) Miss Hobart was educated to be a concert pianist. Instead she became a proficient harpist. At 18 she married...
...most real sport events. Graber, a dark, handsome, nonchalant youth, clung to a bamboo pole painted green at the bottom, slightly longer and more springy than two others which he had brought with him from the Coast. A chipper young fellow, he had brought also a small red camera with which he expected his teammate Pete Chlentzos to take his picture when he set a new record. Chlentzos stood behind him now, patting the lower part of his back, repeating for the nth time the instructions about run, takeoff and rhythmical upswing which Coach Cromwell had discovered it was Graber...
...Britain-boosting tour Edward of Wales used a Bell & Howell (U.S.) amateur movie camera. Back in London he invited numerous peers and bigwigs to view his films, projected them himself with a Bell & Howell projector. H. R. H. smokes U. S. cigarets, plays golf with Walter Hagen clubs, shows a marked dancing preference for U. S. young women, plays U. S. jazz on his saxophone, and as Empire Salesman "threw" for South American bigwig prospects at least one major salesman's drinking party of approved, standardized U. S. pattern, at Vina del Mar, Chile (TIME, March...