Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ship docked on the night of the newspaper photographers' annual ball and the ball was at a standstill while cameramen fumed on the dock for an hour and a half until Lindbergh, his face frozen in the glum glower into which it falls when he sees a news camera, showed himself. The photographers were naturally resentful, but Lindbergh did not know about the ball, did not know the ship had docked because he was talking to his friend, Dr. Carrel...
...Astor III; Henry Ford, who let school children snapshoot him; Glamorite Brenda Frazier; her onetime cavalier, William Livingston, who dined at another table; Vittorio Cini, Commissioner General of the 1942 Rome Exposition (said he: "Mussolini and Hitler are thinking peace"); Playboy James Donahue, who smashed a photographer's camera when he snapped Cousin Barbara (Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow...
...television studios in Manhattan, Heavyweight Boxers Lou Nova and Patsy Perroni one afternoon in April stepped through an exhibition bout that was mostly light lefts and sweat. When it was over, Referee Arthur Donovan eyed the array of television gadgetry around him, then turned and faced the television camera. Said he, with a sweep of his arm: "I wish dis t'ing luck...
...expanding the work of the U. S. Public Health Service and Social Security Board, for "extreme vagueness [in spending] vast sums of money" and the "great powers conferred on certain Federal officers in the control of the spending," and a special committee of the House of Delegates met in camera for three days, emerged with a document listing 22 objections to the Wagner Plan. Hottest hits: "The bill insidiously promotes the development of a complete system of tax-supported Government medical care," and "the bill provides for supreme Federal control...
...participation in the Cuban question was due entirely to Messrs. Hearst, Pulitzer, and Remington. Mr. Mason is more concerned with the legendary Americana that fills the period, and with the war as a colorful, populous picture, aside from its deep political significance. He grinds not an axe, but a camera...