Word: photograph
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Transoceanic Ophthalmoscopy. The travelers far from home need not feel entirely at the mercy of foreign doctors, even if their ailment is something requiring microscopic examination. One Ernestino Dodd of Buenos Aires was in Berlin when his eyes went bad. A photograph of his retina was radioed 7,200 mi. to his own, trusted specialist, who within the hour called back advising his Patient Dodd to have an operation immediately...
...American Museum of Natural History, the expedition hopes to make friends of the Ituran pigmy people by feeding them cake and candy. The pigmies may then lead Jungleer Johnson to the hidden lairs of the midget red buffalo, elephant, hippopotamus where, guarded by his sharpshooting wife, he will photograph and sound-record the awesome sights and sounds of an African jungle, by day and night...
...purr of the R-101 to come out of the inky darkness. At hand a copious supply of cigarettes, wrist watches, fountain pens, and . . . but the list of endorsed merchandise is too long. Already the Vagabond could visualize the welcoming parade, the lecture dates at woman's clubs, his photograph in every room in Smith, Vassar and Wellesley, the fan mail from Radcliffe. And he could hear the sighs of debutantes make soft music in his ears. What a night of nights...
...late, peace-loving Gustav Stresemann, Foreign Minister of the Reich who died last month (TIME, Oct. 14), was given a whole page to himself in the Illustrated London News, including pictures of his death mask, a photograph of his neatly dressed corpse in its coffin (the dead hands holding flowers) and a tribute saying that his death "was a great blow not only to Germany but to Europe as a whole...
Greatest of Fox hobbies is telling the story of his rise to newspaper men who have assembled in the hope of hearing merger news. Greatest of Fox phobias is having his picture published. Fifteen years ago he sat, moustached, for a photograph. Almost immediately he shaved his lip, refused to have new pictures taken. Even last week when patrons eagerly awaited Cineman Fox's birthday message, a substitute appeared and they had no chance to see the real Fox face...