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There are two such scenes, and they are magnificent. The camera moves hectically from ringside to closeup--pausing now to depict a face reeling under the blows of a blurred glove, a kidney being jabbed, or an eye being gouged, then jumping to the front-row seats for a glimpse of Callan's anguished trainers, and returning to the bout again. Long experience in shooting fights has taught moviemakers how to film such scenes with maximum effectiveness...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: Flesh and Fury | 3/29/1952 | See Source »

Laurence Curtis '16, former Massachusetts - State Treasurer, last night announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for governor, and called for a "wholesale closeup of conditions of the State House." Curtis is the first officially announced candidate for Governorship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cartis Is First to Threw His in Mass, GOP Governor's King | 2/6/1952 | See Source »

...ending" to her woeful tale, Lana is near a legal separation from her third husband, Millionaire Bob Topping, playboy tinplate heir. But like any Hollywood heroine, Lana can always count on a happy turning in the script. Last week Hollywood gossips reported her moving into a romantic closeup with a tall, dark and handsome Latin named Fernando Lamas. Says Lana: "I am quite sure that around the corner there is something good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Life of a Sweater Girl | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...turned green, like cheap jewelry. Light blues ran a good deal too . . . when the camera swept the shirt-sleeved crowd one had the impression that all the customers had been laundered together with too much bluing in the water . . . If you watched intently while a batsman swung in a closeup, you saw a regular rainbow of bats of varying colors. For a fraction of an instant, the moving bat became a big Japanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Baseball in Color | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

...THEATER); press by Don Hollenbeck (he disapproved the newspapers' handling of the Truman-Hume correspondence); and movies by Bill Leonard (a vote for Born Yesterday; a vote against Red Skelton's Watch the Birdie). Hear It Now ends with a four-to ten-minute "closeup" (last week's subject: General Douglas MacArthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hear It Now | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

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