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In your issue of Jan. 27 you state that Max Peter Haas caught the first picture of Sonja Henie doing a fall on ice on Jan. 17, 1940. You also include a cut of the photograph. This statement is incorrect.
Photographer Haas witnessed the end of the most exciting gun battle in many a day on the streets of Manhattan (see p. 75). When he got back to his office, developed his roll of film, Max Haas felt a little faint. In his camera were 14 of the best newspictures...
Max Haas promptly called the New York Daily News, offered all 14 pictures for $500. The News snapped them up, sold them in turn to the New York Journal & American, LIFE, TIME, Associated Press, Acme Newspictures. When the money started pouring in, the News revised its agreement with Haas, gave...
What made his lucky break all the more gratifying to Max Haas was the fact that he is not a news photographer at all. A nightclub and society lens-snapper, he also specializes in sports pictures. German-born, a naturalized U. S. citizen, 33-year-old Cameraman Haas in 1931...
Haas uses only one camera, a Leica, always has it with him. His gun-battle pictures last week climaxed a year of lucky breaks. On Jan. 17, 1940, at Madison Square Garden, Haas caught the first picture of Sonja Henie doing a fall on ice. Three weeks later he was...