Word: keen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James Keen, 26-year-old photographer for the Associated Press, has a reputation for always striving for the unusual. Assigned to cover the Ohio-Mississippi flood last January, he spied a refugee Arkansas mother suckling her baby in a relief station, took a human interest picture called "Lowland Madonna" which won him wide praise and Editor & Publisher honors. Three weeks ago Photographer Keen was rushed to Warren County, Ga., whose farmers complained that Glascock County cotton growers were wooing away their Negro cotton pickers with higher wages and whiskey. Warren County Sheriff G. P. Hogan had acknowledged that some Warren...
Unable to find a gun-toting Warren County farmer guarding his blackamoors when he got there, keen James Keen sim ply persuaded a visitor from Atlanta to put on a shabby shirt and pants, shoulder a musket, go out in a field and pose near some Negro pickers. When Sheriff Hogan saw the Keen photograph in his paper, he resented the implication that Warren County was holding its blacks in peonage. He set out to arrest the man with the gun. No one could identify him, so Sheriff Hogan challenged the AP to prove the picture was taken in Warren...
...Manager Kent Cooper understands that many photo graphs cannot be spontaneous, but upon investigating the situation through the AP's promising 26-year-old Atlanta Photo Editor William Boring he quickly de cided that initiative had o'erleaped itself. Last week he fired both Messrs. Boring and Keen. Apologetically AP members told their readers : "Investigation revealed the picture was not genuine, but was a picture posed by the photographer, conveyed a false impression, and did not truthfully represent conditions...
Charles A. Coolidge, Jr. '17: "Harvard shares, perhaps more than the rest of the community, the loss from Mr. Perkins' death. His complete mental honesty and directness, flavored with keen humor, kept him abreast with changing times and gave to his advice a wisdom which members of the Corporation, and those of the faculty who knew him, will sadly miss...
...High, Wide, and Handsome" brings Irene Dunne, Dorothy Lamour, and Randolph Scott together in a pleasant hodgepodge of conflict between true love, a railroad company, oil drillers, and carnival workers. Of course love concerns all and though for a time Miss Dunne ands keen competition from a pipe line for first place in Mr. Scott's affections the story gives her both wealth and the object of her desire before the final scores...