Word: capa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past year the Journal ran the Stimson memoirs, the Stilwell diary, the Robert Capa-John Steinbeck Russian essay, a presidential series by Roger Butterfield, articles on bad housing, "The Alcoholic and His Women," and "Why Do Women Cry." By male tastes (which do not matter to the Journal), its "problem" fiction is below the standard of its articles -but it is not for want of hunting for new authors or problems. The Journal took twelve first stories (at a minimum of $750) by budding writers. Its fiction, food and architecture displays are decorated with wide-open, four-color layouts that...
When Author John Steinbeck looks at television, he sees more than meets the eye. Says he: "It will take the place of most of the other arts because it combines all of them." Last January he set up an organization to visualize his vision. With Photographer Robert Capa, former United Artists Radio Director Henry S. White and RKO's Vice President Phil Reisman, he incorporated an outfit called World Video. Their aim: to build and film good shows, sell them to the television networks...
Waifs from the West. The Soviets admitted them-with some misgivings about Capa (who, in any country, talks and looks like an enemy alien) and his cameras. "The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons," says Steinbeck, "and a man with a camera is suspected and watched." To a polite, but suspicious young man at VOKS, the cultural relations office in Moscow, they tried to explain their mission...
...told the hulking, hearty Steinbeck, "seems to us cynical." Steinbeck explained the job of a writer was to set down his time as he understood it. He tried to make clear the unofficial standing of writers in America : "They are considered just below acrobats and just above seals." Eventually, Capa & Steinbeck were given an interpreter and approval to go to the Ukraine, Stalingrad and Georgia, where the interpreter himself needed an interpreter. They went by air, always in U.S.-built C-47s, and never found a stewardess who did anything but carry pink soda water and beer to the pilots...
...Capa was refused permission to shoot the antlike activity at the Stalingrad tractor plant (and later had 100 of his 4,000 negatives confiscated). They came home convinced that the Soviets, who keep the permanent foreign correspondents cooped up in Moscow, have the world's worst sense of public relations. "The Embassy people and the [regular] correspondents feel alone, feel cut off, they are island people in the midst of Russia, and it is no wonder that they become lonely and bitter," Steinbeck wrote. "But if it had been part of our job to report news as they must...