Word: payoffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time after time, the payoff was extraordinary. One of Bach's students was shy, skinny, 17-year-old Mark Kauffman, owner of a rickety Speed Graphic and the sole support of his parents, two sisters and 14 brothers. "Go out and cover Eleanor Roosevelt," said Bach to Mark one afternoon in 1939. At a press conference, Kauffman snapped unobtrusively in the background, produced one of the most human, humorous pictures of the First Lady ever taken. A week later it adorned the cover of LIFE, and Kauffman...
Unknown to Jones, however, a cameraman filmed the meeting from a parked panel truck. And when Jones drove into a downtown parking lot to make his payoff, state investigators and newsmen peered from a nearby building...
...payoff for Torroja came when he began to receive commissions for structures few engineers would then have cared to tackle. As early as 1933 he had covered the marketplace at Algeciras with a 156-ft. spherical dome, a shelter still ranked as a classic of shell construction. The next year he evolved a scheme for the Madrid Hippodrome, in which a series of soaring shell roofs (see color) were so delicately cantilevered that a thin, vertical tie rod behind the stands was all that was needed to keep them in equilibrium. In Spain's Civil War, the Hippodrome...
...unless it brings in $100 a week," so that the city's 300 machines probably do a $1.5 million annual business. He pointed out that each machine has a counter which records the number of free games left unplayed; a number of unplayed free games may indicate that a "payoff" is involved...
...Figure." The winners could not have cared less about their Trendex. The real payoff was at the box office, and the scramble for the little statuettes was long and rough. Since most of the Academy's 2,087 voters are in Hollywood, the trade papers were barraged with publicity as carefully aimed as that in any congressional race. Actor David Niven, clearly a red-hot contender, paid for some $1,500 worth of personal ads for himself. His producers, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster. shelled out even more. "We evaluate the opposition," explained one film flack, "and figure...