Word: hurleyism
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...like everything at Harvard, the title of "flag custodian" is hotly contested.Sedgwick received a letter from Eugene R. Hurley'53, warning him that he's hot on the older man'stail...
...Hurley, a retired lawyer from Long Island,attended his first Harvard-Yale game with hisfather in 1939, when he was eight years old. Hehasn't missed The Game since, except for 1942,when it was cancelled due to World...
...Frank Hurley's pictures would be remarkable--absolutely first-rate photo-journalism--if they had been made last week. In fact, they were shot from 1914 through 1916, most of them after a disastrous shipwreck, by a cameraman who had no reasonable expectation of survival. Many of the images, made on glass plates, then spent several months sealed in lead boxes, stored in an ice chest, under freezing water, in the crushed wooden hull of a slowly sinking ship...
...cold and hunger, caught the world's imagination, and a filmed tribute drew crowds. Shackleton, a onetime British merchant-navy officer who had trekked to within 100 miles of the South Pole in 1908, formed a syndicate before his 1914 voyage to capitalize on movie and still photography. Frank Hurley, a self-assured and gifted Australian photographer who knew the Antarctic, was hired to make the images, most of which have never before been published...
...during the coldest season in memory and, after weeks of trying to follow open-water leads, was frozen in. And there the ship stayed. Shackleton and his men were prepared to winter over, and they did, still fairly confident, killing penguins to stretch out their stores of food. Hurley climbed the yardarms to take photos, and at one point--amazingly, given the equipment he had to work with--lighted the frost-coated ship with 20 synchronized flashes for a dramatic night shot...