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...well-known and liked . . . was operating a restaurant in Valdez. . . . For reasons of his own he imported an oversupply of Jap dishwashers, cooks, second cooks, bakers. This superintelligent help would stay a few weeks, then disappear to be replaced by a fresh batch. Each employe was armed with a Leica or similar high-powered camera and spent most of his time away from his work taking pictures of the surrounding country...
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...