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...hair, wondrous chestnut, something like an October leaf in the northern climate, yet when she faced you there was only a long face, oily, with eyes two small periwinkles, something like a parrot's beak for nose, and that huge ridiculous chin copied from a wrestler's photograph...
Even some of the few who refused have added nuggets to Randall's correspondence. When Admiral Hyman Rickover's secretary replied that the admiral never signed his name for anyone he did not know personally, Randall wrote right back, sending along a photograph of himself. (It didn't work.) He has kind notes from representatives of Jackie Kennedy, Charles de Gaulle, Albert Schweitzer and Winston Churchill saying that they are simply too busy to send autographs. When he tried to get Caryl Chessman's signature, however, he got only a steely note from an assistant warden...
...refrigerators at 20% under. But Mexican shoppers nearly overran the store, sometimes scooping up goods so fast that the brothers had to lock the doors before closing hours. Borrowing a spy-movie technique, department stores staked out a cameraman in a room across from the store to photograph unloading trucks, then threatened wholesalers with the loss of bigger business...
...ready explanation. Last fall three Negroes applied for admission to all-white Alabama, but so far they have been blocked by state authorities. Fearing a future integration showdown similar to the violent mob efforts to keep James Meredith out of the University of Mississippi, Justice asked for aerial photographs to help federal marshals prepare their strategy and tactics in advance. Said a Justice official: "There was sort of a critique on the University of Mississippi-a re-examination of everything we did there in case that kind of thing ever happened again. The marshals thought they needed a photograph...
...reproductions or copies. That is one of the nice things about prints: each one, whether it be an etching, woodcut, lithograph or serigraph, is just as much an "original" as the first. The works shown on the next two pages are, necessarily, reproductions; tiny dots of color simulate a photograph of the original. But the prints that collectors buy and that museumgoers see come right from the hand of the artist in editions limited usually to around 40 or fewer, and each print is just as valuable as the first...