Word: photographers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Omaha he tried settling down at his old trade, photography. Then the Geological Survey sent him to explore and photograph the unknown Yellowstone. For the Survey, too, he photographed the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde. To study and photograph railroads he got himself sent around the world, crisscrossed Europe, northern Africa, southern Asia, almost circumnavigated Australia, almost froze to death on a winter journey from Vladivostok to Moscow. Quieter now, he paints massive murals of the western mountains when he isn't tossing off smaller oils...
Artist August Henkel had a glib explanation for everything. He produced a photograph of mustached Franz Reichelt, pioneer parachutist killed in a leap from the Eiffel Tower, which had struck him as a "stunning design," formed the basis of the Stalin-like figure. The two Leftist pilots, said he, symbolized the spirit of self-sacrifice in aeronautical advance rather than political ideology. As for the red star, some one of his many assistants had probably made a slip. Lieut. Colonel Brehon Burke Somervell, New York City's driving WPAdministrator, promptly ordered three of the four murals taken down, cremated...
...exhibitors. In spite of Chaplin secrecy, news has long since leaked out that The Dictator is a story of a mistaken identity, in which a battered little man in a concentration camp (Charlie Chaplin) and his Führer (Charlie Chaplin) exchange places. But until last week no photograph of Chaplin as a burlesque Hitler had yet been released...
...violent eruptions that produce magnetic storms through the earth's atmosphere. But it is impossible to detect such phenomena with an ordinary telescope, for the sun's brilliance obscures its crown. For years astronomers rushed to the ends of the earth, chasing eclipses so they could photograph the corona for a few minutes while the sun itself was blacked out. Several years ago Bernard Lyot, an obscure astronomer of the Paris Observatory, invented the coronagraph, a combination telescope and camera that created an artificial eclipse...
...winning photograph, chosen from a large group of female poses and snapshots, was submitted by Miss Peggy Afflerbach. Jane Lang, also of Endicott, ran second in the poll, while Harvard's only entry, Ruth Beaton, gained third place in the popularity rating...