Word: photographers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Year. First the Associated Press in a rare moment of relaxation gave her the title. By last week The Shape had received even more dazzling recognition as the circle of her admirers expanded to include at least one segment of British officialdom. The British Ministry of Information saw her photograph in the London Daily Mirror, immediately cabled the U.S. for permission to use it in stimulating the morale of Britain's Army & Navy...
...just 16 when he went off to boot camp at Great Lakes. In 1927, at aviation school, he took his first uncertain solo hop. Fifteen years later Chief Machinist's Mate Smith flew off the Enterprise against Jap-held Kwajalein, and on June 3, 1942, worrying about a photograph he had meant to send to his wife, Smitty in an old TBD chugged into the Battle of Midway...
Next day his photograph, distributed by A.P. wirephoto, was printed throughout the U.S., becoming a likely candidate for the 1944 Pulitzer Prize. But Cowan was far from happy. Editors and fellow reporters showered him with congratulations. Said Cowan: "I wish I hadn't been there...
...Editor's Note: The original photograph of Vernon, stirring a soup pot, also showed the kettle, but the engravers cut the picture so short that the kettle doesn't show, all of which detracts much from the picture...
...airmen had managed to photograph a V-2's red-streaked, zigzagged climb into the stratosphere. The pictures suggested that the first ten or 15 miles of the rocket's course are inside a "radio cage" set up by wave transmitters spaced in a two-mile circle around the launching site. On this theory, aiming the rocket was a matter of bouncing it from side to side of its cage until it was on course. It would be practically impossible to intercept...