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...Jordan Marsh department store just before Christmas 1948 proudly touted the new cameras with the slogan "Snap it, see it." As curious customers watched in fascination, Polaroid pictures almost miraculously developed right inside the camera in one minute. Photography's professionals dismissed it as a gimmick, but Edwin Land had just founded the instant-photo industry, now a $1.2 billion business. Last week Land, 70, one of the premier tinkerers of American history, announced his retirement as chief executive officer of Polaroid amid a whirlwind of controversy. Land's departure will be due in large part...
...what Edwin Diamond and Bruce Mazlish are selling in this political year bio of Jimmy Carter, the president proved on Tuesday that he is both a part of, and apart from, the people of New Hampshire. Carter is running for reelection, the authors would tell us, because of his deep psychological need to "measure up and win." The man from Georgia picked up his 49 per cent by carefully managing to control his emotions and quell the steamy contradictions which threaten at any moment to split his newly-parted scalp. Carter got to the White House through his belief...
...news ratings race with increasing regularity, and is even closing in on CBS, the longtime leader (see chart). "ABC is developing an authentic success," concedes Robert ("Shad") Northshield, executive producer of CBS's adventurous new Sunday Morning magazine show. "They are one hell of an outfit." Adds Press Critic Edwin Diamond: "Roone Arledge is Captain Success...
Marcello dined, drank and traveled with the disguised FBI men, laying out a trail of corruption that led to the staff of Louisiana Governor Edwin W. Edwards. Various state officials in Texas and local officials in Houston are also under investigation. Marcello further revealed to the agents a plot to bribe a federal judge in Los Angeles with up to $250,000 to fix a racketeering-murder trial of five Mafia figures. The judge was tipped by the FBI before he was approached by the plotters. The Brilab scam was shut down last week...
...Edwin Warner...