Word: photographers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flight for Freedom (RKO-Radio) centers around the expansion of Japanese power in the '30s. The U.S. needs a plausible reason to photograph the Japanese-mandated islands from the air. Suppose the Navy had to search for a famous woman flyer lost in that neighborhood...
...overboard with a cascade of type. Second day after the accident the story rated nearly 50 inches, with pictures, on the Examiner's page 3. Next day it moved to the top of page 1 and had a long runover with which there were more pictures, including a photograph of Benedict Canyon Road on which an artist had drawn dotted lines and arrows. Total Examiner coverage in nine days: 253 inches, 15 pictures. The Herald-Express gave the story the same sort of treatment: 205 inches, nine pictures...
Take another general - Tulienev. You describe him as bemoustached, fun-loving, expert on mountain warfare and fond of skiing to the front lines. Can it be that the first two items were imagined by your editors after a look at his photograph (after all, a grinning man might be fun-loving) ? Can it also be that your editors have missed that issue of the Times which reported it's been raining in the Caucasus all through the current campaign, and that the Red troops have been slogging through the mud? Would that not make it difficult...
...Pictures in advertisements must conform to specified sizes: in newspapers and magazines a photograph or sketch of a dress, for example, cannot take up more than six square inches. A picture of a box of tea is permitted, but not a picture of a group of women enjoying tea. In mailorder catalogues either a front or back view of a coat may be pictured, but not both; only one shoe can be shown, not a pair. Only when it is necessary (such as in a suit or hat advertisement) can a picture of a human figure be used...
...above an envelope, the latter's fluorescent surface steps up the short ultraviolet waves enough to make them visible, not enough to destroy eye adaptation. The illumination, unlike that of an ordinary dim light, is confined to the reading surface, will light a 36-sq-in. map or photograph inside the envelope, but cannot be seen by an attacking plane...