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Struck by the fact that, as far as he knew, no photograph of the three living U.S. ex-Presidents existed, Utica Press Copy Editor Joseph Ray, of Oneida, N.Y., wrote the New York Herald Tribune that one ought to be made. "Let's get this historic shot taken while there's still time," he said. Noting the letter, Alan Richards, a Princeton, N.J., freelance photographer, dug through his files and came up with just such a rare shot, taken at Princeton University's 200th anniversary celebration in 1947. "Truman was still Ike's boss...
...would open a new round of nuclear tests on Aug. 5 in the Arctic testing ground of Novaya Zemlya. Before that, the last reported Russian blast took place in November 1961. It was with more than passing curiosity, therefore, that Western correspondents in Moscow last week came upon a photograph that appeared in the military newspaper Red Star on Aug. 3-two days before the new series began. It showed Russian tanks lumbering across a rolling landscape; there in the background was the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion. The caption said the picture was taken "during recent war games...
...this a Soviet bomb blast that the West had not detected or announced? And one set off with manned tanks dangerously near? Probably not. Closer examination of the photograph suggested an entirely different explanation: the mushroom cloud seemed simply to have been painted or superimposed onto a picture of routine tank maneuvers. If so, Red Star's caption writer is clearly a man of imagination. His dramatic description of the scene began, "A mighty atom explosion neutralized the resistance of the enemy. Tank units moved swiftly forward at highest speed carrying out the orders of the commanders...
Where oh where can that battle horn be? The well-aled machinery of the Yard begins to ho-hum. "Police photographers" rush in, set up their cameras, photograph the police. Dragnets are spread. "Calling Car ii D. Turn left into Oxford Street . . . Calling Car 5 K. Turn right into Oxford Street." Crash! A few frames later a man's suit is found without a man in it. After exhaustive analysis, the lab releases its report: "This suit needs cleaning." Suddenly a stone comes flying through the window and lands on Quilt's desk. "Aha!" cries the master sleuth...
Beside the Phone. She seemed euphonic and cheerful, even while 20th Century-Fox was filing suit against her in hopes of salvaging $750,000 damages from the wreckage of Something's Got to Give. She offered a photographer exclusive rights to nearly-nude shots of her from the set because, she said, "I want the world to see my body." Last week, she negotiated still another sale of a nude photograph to a picture magazine...