Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Latest of "Candid Camera" experts is Reinie Lohse, a Puerto Rico-born Dane. Last January he was nobody. Last week his photographs were featured in six magazines (The Stage, Vogue, Vanity Fair, American Magazine, Cottier's, Town & Country) and he held a one-man show. The 200 photographs on the walls of the Atlantic Beach Club at Long Beach, L. I. Last week were chiefly on theatrical subjects, all unposed. A tiny Contax camera looking like a child's harmonica, with a rapid-fire F 1.3 lens had turned them out the size of a special delivery stamp...
...cosmos not only too much ego but too much untethered intelligence and the haunting, still unlaid nightmare of a childhood tragedy. At outs with his wife for the past six months, he has suspected her and his best friend of being more than friendly. Acting on a candid letter from another friend, Gather is cutting short a (rip to Manhattan, hoping and fearing to find proof of his suspicions on his unexpected arrival home. Everything turns out just as he thought it would; he finds that foreknowledge makes the fact no easier. As he took the precaution of coming home...
...along with the boys, smiling approval after each number. He was Archibald Thompson Davison, organist and choirmaster at Appleton Chapel, who has been the Glee Club's director for 21 years. He had been convinced that college boys could sing as artistically as professional choruses. Because of his candid, unassuming ways, his free & easy speech, the boys listened to him as they would to a football coach. For him they learned to sing in Latin, French and German, just as the music was written originally. They learned that good choral singing does not have to be exaggeratedly loud...
...Lady Mrs. Banning and puritanical Matthew Herring, find them an abomination, mutter also at the slapdash way Doc Bull treats his patients, public opinion, his Board of Health job. The doctor, an active, level-headed but choleric 60-year-old, has no very exalted view of medicine, speaks his candid mind on all occasions. ''An old horse doctor like me looks at them and all he can see is that medical science is perfectly useless in 95 out of every 100 cases." Though he has great contempt for most of his neighbors, Doc Bull has found a kindred...
...John is seldom candid, but he was understood to think that if Japan had "renounced force" (instead of merely "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy" under the Kellogg-Briand Pact), something could have been done about the undeclared war during which Japan bombarded Shanghai while shooting up Manchuria...