Word: capa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London's Savoy Hotel, John Steinbeck overheard a Chicago Tribune man snort: "Capa, you have absolutely no integrity!" That wartime remark, says Steinbeck, "intrigued me-I was fascinated that anybody could get so low that a Chicago Tribune man could say such a thing. I investigated Capa, and I found out it was perfectly true." Photographer Robert Capa and Author Steinbeck became great friends...
...Russians have a definite liking for Americans but are convinced that we plan to invade them," John Steinbeck and Robert Capa told the CRIMSON yesterday afternoon after debarking at Logan airport...
...average peasant is probably thinking that "the masses will eat tomorrow," as the result of this week's Soviet deflation program, Capa observed. "All he cares about is his bread and cabbage and how the end of rationing will mean a great deal more...
John Steinbeck and Robert Capa, both just returned from a special news assignment in Russia, will be guests of the Nieman Fellows tonight at the journalists' regular bi-monthly dinner at the Harvard Club of Boston...
There were no publisher's cocktail parties last week for Author Capa. He was in Moscow with John Steinbeck, on assignment from the New York Herald Tribune. But in the current '47, his friend John Hersey spoke up for him, giving some lowdown that was news even to Capa's publishers. Capa, said Hersey, is "The Man Who Invented Himself." He was thought up in Paris by a poor Hungarian free-lancer named Andrei Friedmann and his sweetheart, Gerda. The better to sell Friedmann's pictures to unwilling French editors, they palmed them...