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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...
Last week Robert Marion Metcalf could congratulate himself on a big job well done, in the nick of time. A short, baldish, bustling American with a fringe-beard, he knows and loves medieval stained glass. Since 1938 he has been scurrying around France with a Leica camera, color-photographing stained glass windows faster than the French Government could replace them in the Gothic cathedrals from which it removed them during World War I. He photographed all the windows in tide-swept Mont St. Michel, Le Mans, Chartres. At times when he had to stop and rest, Robert Metcalf...
When Hitler enters a fallen province or city, or appears anywhere in public, Photographic Reporter Hoffmann rides in the car behind him. Armed with a Leica camera, Bildberichterstatter Hoffmann darts back & forth in front of the Führer unmolested, while other photographers are kept at a respectful distance. The world's news agencies clamor for Heinrich Hoffmann's pictures, for he is the man who picks the photographers to cover everything the Aggrandizer does, and for the best jobs he picks himself...
...does on the U. S. vaudeville stage. For five years he has been a constant companion and sometime adviser of the ReichsFührer, helping to fill the place once occupied by "Putzy" Hanfstaengl, whose piano was not so successful an instrument of flattery as Heinrich Hoffmann's Leica...
...black-browed fatalist of 24, Capa has strung along with Leftist attacks lightly armed with a Leica. His wife, Photographer Gerda Taro, was crushed by a Leftist tank last year during the retreat from Brunete. Capa's work in Spain has made him one of the world's great photographers and last week's exhibition was his first in the U. S. It was also a nearly definitive collection of Capa's Spanish photographs. For after more than a year of pictorial reporting, interrupted only by a brief visit to the U. S. last autumn, Robert...