Word: eye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Benito Mussolini's horse bumped him into a low-hanging branch which knocked him off, blacked his eye. Imperturbed. Il Duce attended a large reception at the British Embassy that night...
Jimmy Northmore called his apparatus "The Magic Eye." First shots published by the Times were of Baseballer Jimmy Foxx striking out. Northmore snapped a series of Golfer Al Watrous getting out of a sand trap, the prints plainly showing the clubhead traveling ahead of the ball after the impact. Last fortnight at University of Detroit Stadium his "Magic Eye" followed Pole-Vaulter Walter Simmons over the bar (see cut). Last week the Times played up his shots of Socialite Mary Mitchell playing tennis, lions brawling in the Detroit...
...even other Times cameramen know what is inside Jimmy Northmore's "Magic Eye' which he hopes his superiors will patent and manufacture for exclusive Hearstpaper use. He shops for his film at a different drug store every day, admits he uses 12-exposure Kodak film, so spliced as to make 48 exposures...
Detroit Free Press made its fast-camera debut last week, also with strips of runners and jumpers at last fortnight's Western Conference Track Meet at Ann Arbor, Mich. A wry caption explained: "These remarkable pictures . . .were taken with the slow motion picture camera (magic eye, my aunt) of the Detroit Free Press." Cameraman Joseph Kalec, slim, dark, saturnine, a onetime Army flyer, made no secret of the fact that he used an ordinary De Vry 35 mm. cinema camera. But he had been obliged to tinker the shutter speed to get "stills" that could be enlarged without blurring...
...permit." After five hours solo, the best living pilot was scheduled this week to take his flight test for a transport license. Said Alford J. ("Al") Williams, famed onetime Navy stunt pilot: "Aviation needs Acosta badly. Seeing him take a ship off the ground is the best eye tonic I've had in years...