Word: hauptmanns
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...maintain its picture-mat service to small papers at the same standard of efficiency as in the past, and at no greater cost than in pre-Wirephoto days. Boldly Publisher Macy pounced on a sore toe by reviewing the AP's momentous blunders on the Hauptmann verdict, the Gold Clause decision and the Weirton case "while the executives' attention was diverted to Wire-photo." His main point for the resolution: His papers were required to pay 50% more for an expedited mat-service to keep from being scooped by metropolitan dailies invading his own territory with Wirephotos. Moreover...
...Gerhart Hauptmann, by Edward J. Steichen, probably the greatest photographer in the U. S. Photographer Steichen posed the great German playwright against an artificial starlit sky, made him look more like the elder Goethe than usual...
...Transcontinental & Western Air plane for New York, bustled away again. Hour later they were back to ask: "Is that the 'Lindbergh Line'?" Told that it was, they indignantly canceled their reservations. Asked TWA's Chicago manager: "Who were they?" Replied the hotel clerk: "Mrs. Bruno Richard Hauptmann and two lawyers...
...Belgium, France, Italy, Austria, Russia tramp a stern significance into the warning words of statesmen. Besides a visual integration of a taut European situation, this March of Time edition contains: 1) the dramatic crisis in the office of the New York Daily News on the night of the Hauptmann verdict; 2) an electric light bulb breaking, milk dropping into a pan, photographed by a camera 150 times faster than the human eye; 3) the crash of the Mohawk and Talisman off the New Jersey shore; 4) the story of Convict Huddie Ledbetter ("Lead Belly") whose Negro songs get him pardoned...
...jury which convicted Bruno Richard Hauptmann, Defense Counsel Edward J. Reilly said in Brooklyn: "One look at that jury was enough. . . . One of the women jurors had a tremendous appetite and ate tremendous meals. How in God's name could she return to the jury box after lunch without being dull? We would have had no more chance if we had brought John the Baptist there as a defense witness...