Word: photograph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fiery thread extended backward from the main mass before it spread out into the gaseous brilliantly shaded tail, which may have been between 50 and 100 miles long." One million meteors enter the earth's atmosphere each hour, become incandescent from friction. But rarely are astronomers able to photograph the hot spots and analyze the spectra. Last week Harvard's Dr. Peter Mackenzie Millman proudly reported that he had spectral pictures of nine meteors. Six, possibly seven were mostly stone. All contained some iron (heated to vapors of between...
...issue which reached the U. S. last week displayed a telephoto of the California earthquake, shots of the Cambridge crew, the running of the United Hunts' Challenge Cup, fashion, disaster and cinema pictures, and a fine photograph of Private Cruddas of the ist Green Howards belting Private Alexandra of the ist Oxon & Bucks in a boxing match. The magazine is published weekly in London, costs sixpence...
...Hollywood, where studios were only slightly damaged, Maurice Chevalier was recording a love song beside a pool of swans. He & swans instantly stopped work. Marlene Dietrich was autographing a photograph for a friend. The pen made a wild sweep. Miss Dietrich dated the picture to commemorate the occasion. Carole Lombard was flung from a fitting stand in the wardrobe room...
...lingering in the park when most of the Press photographers had started ahead to the Roosevelt special train, 27-year-old Sammy Schulman, for 14 years an International News Photo cameraman, was rewarded with a startling action picture of Mayor Cermak a few seconds after he had been wounded. His picture of the bleeding Mayor (see cut) was also distributed through Acme because Acme carried the photograph in its plane to Manhattan. The picture approaches in sensational spontaneity the picture that alert William Warneke made for the oldtime Evening World of New York's Mayor Gaynor within...
Like the Freshman "Red Book," the Album will have a section devoted to President Lowell. It will probably be about eight pages and will deal with his life here at Harvard. The Committee has obtained a hitherto unpublished photograph of the President for the first page. Pictures of him as an undergraduate, as a young teacher, and as President, will also be featured...