Word: photographers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time the Russian man-in-the-street knew what Voronov looked like. One photograph showed him receiving his medal from small, bearded President Mikhail Kalinin, and smiling self-consciously, like a boy in his first long pants. Another showed him questioning beaten Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus in a bare room near Stalingrad. On Moscow's Kuznetsky Most, an enterprising art gallery exhibited his portrait in oil-blue eyes, bulbous nose, big, friendly mouth, heavy jowls...
...train trips which Early dislikes. But his prime value to the President has been as all-round literary choreman, helping compose some of the most felicitous of Presidential letters, touching up the Presidential speeches and supplying apt quotations and historical facts. One of his prized possessions is an autographed photograph of the President inscribed: "To Bill Hassett −a rare combination of Roget, Bartlett and Buckle...
This week to every Republican Governor, Senator, Representative, national committee member and prospective national convention delegate will go a 68-page booklet entitled America's Road to Lasting Peace. The booklet's frontispiece is a full-page photograph of its author, Ohio's Senator Harold Hitz Burton, 56, able three-time mayor of Cleveland, coauthor of the famed Ball-Burton-Hatch-Hill Senate Resolution for international organization...
Reading aerial pictures requires even more skill than shooting them. The best interpreters can identify new types of aircraft on the ground, and name enemy ships, from a photograph with a scale of one to 10,000. They can often read bomb damage accurately from pictures taken six miles up. In Sicily, the Army found the photogrammetrists' interpretations 100% accurate...
...great crowd gathered in Munich to hear the reading of Germany's declaration of war. Years later, a face was discovered in a photograph of this occasion. Among the hundreds of faces was one which, "despite the conspicuous ordinariness of [its] features, seemed illumined by an emotion unusual even in this crowd. It was a haggard, sickly face; the broad, bushy mustache gave it an artificially wild look; the protruding, hyperthyroid eyes sent forth an exaggerated gleam. . . . The man to whom this face belongs stands apparently alone in the crowd...