Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When General "Jumping Joe" Swing, First Corps commander, came in from Corps Headquarters in Kyoto, 11 hours after Fukui's tragic earthquake (TIME, July 12) he asked TIME Correspondent Carl Mydans "How did you know there was going to be a quake here...
Although news correspondents don't generally enter their trade in search of the quiet life, Boston-born Carl Mydans has had a more than spectacular career since he came with TIME, Inc. in 1936, as a LIFE photographer. One of his early jobs was a story on New York City's Queens-Midtown tunnel, where he worked with the .sandhogs below the bed of the East River, got the bends, was revived, went back for more. He covered the Russo-Finnish war in 1940, covered the retreat of the French government from Paris to Bordeaux, then...
Death has no sting for 73-year-old Sculptor Carl Milles...
Showing his town to TIME Correspondent Carl Mydans one afternoon last week, Lieut. Colonel James Hyland, commander of the U.S. Military Government in Fukui, remarked, "Look at it. Ninety-seven percent destroyed in one B-29 raid in 1945, and already 60% rebuilt. No shanties in this city either. We're building for permanency." The earthquake that rocked the city three hours later killed 1,600 people, injured 10,000 more. Mydans, who was uninjured, cabled this report...
...ever claimed to know all of the fat and formidable organ literature of Bach by heart. As a performer of Bach and other early masters, he has his rivals: in famed Bach Scholar Albert Schweitzer and Princeton's Carl Weinrich. But Dupré is also a master of the moderns...