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Patterns in pictures fascinated her, and her brooding shot of the partly finished crenelated dam at Fort Peck, Mont., graced the very first cover of LIFE in 1936. In a 40-year career with Time Inc. that started when she was hired as FORTUNE'S first photographer in 1929, Margaret Bourke-White pursued patterns everywhere, from sweat droplets on a South African miner's face more than a mile underground to the look of New York from a precarious perch atop a gargoyle on the Chrysler Building, 800 ft. above the street. By the time she died last...
...obvious that there have been great changes in lotus land. From his 30-room mansion, New Arrival Hefner stages Sunday barbecues replete with Playboy bunnies, while Hollywood oldtimers seem to be making do with hot dogs and sangria. Some of the established hostesses, Roz Russell, Denise Minnelli, Mrs. Gregory Peck, still stage conspicuously sumptuous affairs now and again. But in the new Hollywood such lavishness seems almost ostentatiously out of date...
...still cut it. He gets tangled up in the ill fortunes of his passenger, a hit man with a cheap line of chatter (Tony Musante) and his girl (Trish Van Devere), who is supposed to be a moll but looks a good deal more like a Peck & Peck model. The suspense is so listless that the characters seem considerably less likely to perish from gunshot than from atrophy...
...heard women screaming just across the road as the Russians raped them during the height of the battle, saw an arm floating magically through the air with no person attached to it, watched in horror as a chicken cautiously circled the corpse of a child and prepared to peck the eyes out. A bullet nicked her; an exploding shell blasted her senseless. Von Demandowsky was a married man, but as the world broke up around them, the lovers in a final grand romantic gesture persuaded an officer to marry them. After they were captured by the Russians, Hilde escaped...
...Late in January, Kirp told five staff lawyers-Stuart R. Abelson '65, Stephen Arons, Jeffrey W. Kobrick, Carolyn R. Peck and Robert Pressman-that their contracts would not be renewed...