Word: metering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LEICA, which has been making the same basic 35-mm. camera since 1924, has just brought out a radical new model to meet increasing competition. Called the "M," the new camera has interchangeable bayonet lenses (instead of the usual screw-mounted type), a detachable automatic light meter, and a combination viewer and range finder that adjusts automatically for all lenses. Retail price...
...declaim the Advocate's poetry would slight Brock Brower's "Deucalion." A somewhat cynical, somewhat humorous affair on God's creation of man, Brower's easy meter and obscure, as well as obvious, metaphors give the poem a freshness unique in the issue. Frederick Seidel's "Not Too Damn Much Happens In the Spring" is a startling amalgam of Keats, Eliot, Cummings, . . . and apparently Seidel...
...Dimensions of the Sea" contains a good verbal and rhythmic description of the ocean in the first verse, but falters as the second verse slips into an apostrophe to a microcosmic dream. Keith Highet wrote "And In the Comment Did I Find Charm" within a somewhat limiting rhyme and meter scheme. The poem, like Peter Junger's "Two Kings" is innocuous, but pleasant. I trust that's all the writers intended...
Your readers might enjoy a picture I took of the photographer, George Leavens, in action under water [see cut]. He is using a special case that he constructed himself and that houses both his camera and light meter...
Josy Barthel 1G, winner of five out of six indoor mile races this winter, was awarded a major H in track. The Faculty Committee on Athletics presented the Olympic 1500 meter record holder with the award last Friday in recognition of "his extensive service, sportsmanship, and outstanding contributions to track, both at Harvard and in national and international competition...