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Harlow, who awarded gold footballs to Varsity letter-winners, paid tribute to all his coaches and players, mention- ing especially the spirit of substitute guard Tony Staruski. The coach also cited the importance of undergraduate support in the success of the last season and gave unstinted praise to the Seniors on the 1938 team...
Katz put a technical staff to work design ing new models and came out in 1935 with a curved wrist watch (''Curvex"), in which the movement was curved to fit the case...
...Wally's favorite models was Sergeant Alexander Woollcott, star reporter for The Stars and Stripes. Woollcott, elegant of uniform and gait, swooning at the sound of a tire blowout, was pictured with Reporter Hudson Hawley, whom Wally made famous as the "Salut-ing Demon." In the hectic offices of The Stars and Stripes, Wally found other models: Editor Harold Ross, now editor of The New Yorker; Poet Tip Bliss, whose dog tried to bite General Pershing on his only visit to the office; Colyumnist Franklin Pierce Adams (F. P. A.); Mark Watson, now Sunday editor of the Baltimore...
...theorem that "the camera cannot lie" is one banality which no self-respect-ing photographer ever repeats. Unless a camera is skilfully used it can produce mechanical lies on the negative, and in many kinds of light or shadow even expert photographers do not yet know how to reproduce what they see. Under the best technical circumstances, moreover, a photograph tells precisely that fraction of truth allowed by the camera's brief interval of exposure and limited field of vision. This fraction may be very slight or very great, depending on the photographer's luck, care and awareness...
...Wages 6 Hours, To give the President his pet piece of legislation. Congress last week passed a compromise bill (TIME, June 20) fixing minimum wages at 25^ an hour, maximum hours at 44 a week, providing for a 40^-40-hour standard after seven years, with flexible provisions mak-ing it tolerable to the industrial South which had kept the President from getting it before...