Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tersini who won a judgment against him for $14,000 for breach of promise; and the fact that his plea of bankruptcy, shrewdly entered two weeks before the fight, was nonetheless unlikely to leave him free to spend his share of the $200,000 gate receipts.* The news of Camera's victory filled the front pages of Italian newssheets. Meeting in Rome, the International Boxing Federation declared Camera an Italian despite the fact that he once applied for French citizenship. Camera's mother wept when she heard the news. The new champion celebrated his victory by trying...
...receipts were $160,000. Camera received 10%, Sharkey 421/2 %. Madison Square Garden Corp. - whose president, William F. Carey, last week resigned and was succeeded by onetime Yale Footballer John Kilpatrick-made a profit of $40,000 of which Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's Milk Fund got 25%. As usual, the Hearst papers earned the Milk Fund's share by giving the fight an enthusiastic ballyhoo. Shrewdest prediction of the result was a drawing by Burris Jenkins Jr., which appeared in the Evening Journal the afternoon of the fight. It prophesied 1) the winner 2) the knockout...
Externally Dr. Zworykin's iconoscope resembles a big electric light bulb with a long neck. The bulb part is 8 in. in diameter, the whole 16 in. long. Inside are, in order from bulb to butt, 1) an ordinary motion picture camera lens which focuses on 2) a 5x4 in. sheet of thin mica. The mica is coated with microscopic particles of a secret light-sensitive material (3,000,000 particles. Dr. Zworykin computes). In the bulb's neck is 3) a small, efficient, oscillating cathode tube which sends a slim beam of electrons weaving over the light...
...photographic novelties like a shot of the sky with stars assembling themselves into a bar of music. Comment by Mordaunt Hall, onetime British Army officer who writes astonished cinema reviews for the New York Times: "One might hazard that it is a film in which the wizardry of the camera 'is the thing...
...promised to do last week, he gives Canzoneri, who had held the title for three years, a return match next autumn. Far more uncertain than the light weight situation is the condition of the heavyweight championship. This week's fight between Jack Sharkey (champion) and Primo Camera is actually no more than an elimination bout to provide a worthy opponent for Max Baer, who beat Schmeling. In Oakland, Calif., newshawks last week unearthed another Baer possibly even more alarming than Max-his brother "Buddy" Baer, 17, 6 ft. 4½ in., 246 lb., who plans to become a professional...