Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mirror, Mirror . . ." Many middle-class parents, aware that they can show a child neither a clear tradition-worn path nor a clear work-shaped goal, ask him merely to "do his best" in any of the unpredictable situations that will face him. What is his best? That which wins the approval of his contemporaries...
...found the models for some of these faces in his favorite Manhattan restaurant. The tired face of the floor sweeper, for example, was his inspiration for Jephthah, the man who made the rash vow. For Adam, he used his own son Charles, and Guy himself posed before a mirror for David mourning Absalom...
Around the city room of the New York Daily Mirror, Photographer Bob Wendlinger is known as "The Bridge Expert." Two years ago he chased a police call to Manhattan's George Washington Bridge, arrived in time to get a memorable, prize-winning picture of a young Negro twisting from the outstretched hands of a priest and plunging to his death 250 ft. below (TIME, March 10, 1952). Last week, cruising in the Mirror's radio car, Wendlinger got word of another suicide attempt. A despondent taxi driver called the paper's news desk and said that...
...jump. Then Wendlinger turned his camera over to a cop, extended a helping hand to the man and guided him to other waiting cops, who brought him down. Bridge Expert Wendlinger made only one mistake; he was so busy talking that he took no pictures. But another Mirror photographer took a frontpage picture for his paper (see cut). The photographer: John Hearst Jr., 20, grandson of Founder William Randolph Hearst, and son and namesake of the Hearst-papers' assistant general manager...
Portraits often mirror the artist as much as their subjects. On the walls of the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Mass., last week, hung a collection of portraits that were animated with gentle strength of character, aglow with love of children. They depicted many famous men-Philosopher William James, Pablo Casals, Richard Harding Davis, Robert E. Sherwood (as a small boy). But what they described with even greater certainty was their creator, Ellen Emmet Rand, who plainly painted with malice toward none...