Word: leicas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nazi exchange-instructors, assigned to the French universities in great numbers, were at that time traveling about the country armed with the familiar Leica, Benoit says. Instead of taking courses in French universities, they were studying French topography, communications, and public facilities...
...even lecture jointly, live quietly with their mother, Mrs. Hannah Goldstein, in a neat, red brick apartment building overlooking St. Paul's Langford Park. Their small apartment is carefully decorated according to the rules in Art in Everyday Life. Even their hobbies are collaborative: taking pictures with Leica cameras, making pewter plates and hand-printed draperies. To University of Minnesota home economists their prim, judicious maxims are cultured pearls of wisdom. Samples...
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 strolling down the street after breakfast, Leica in hand, when Furman Richard Jaeckel fell from a window overhead, landed on a canopy. Max Haas got that one too. He has twice won Leica awards for his pictures-once (in 1936) for a shot of German Fighter Max Schmeling looking...
...cameraman's record must be faultless; he must go quietly about his business, supervising the lighting, arranging camera angles, advising the director on effective touches. He must operate his 425-lb. contraption of multi-lensed, cog-wheeled intricacies with as much dexterity as if it were a Leica. With shooting time costing $20 a minute and with no chance to see the results until the following day, he cannot afford errors...
William Henry Jackson still takes pictures, but with an up-to-date Leica, does a little sketching on the side, spends his spare time polishing his autobiography, which is due next month. Says he: "A fellow has to keep busy or he gets bored. I'm never bored." Three years ago, when his cronies of the G. A. R. hobbled bravely down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue in their Memorial-Day parade, Veteran Jackson failed to march. "Poor old Bill!" sighed his aged brothers-in-arms. Later they discovered that Bill Jackson had been dodging...