Word: photographers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strung up by his heels from a tree limb, the Viet Cong prisoner, his face twisted in pain, was being interrogated by Nung mercenaries working with a U.S. Special Forces unit in the jungle near Due Phong. The photograph caught an ugly tableau found in every war, and it was widely reprinted in the U.S. press, often with indignant captions. As so often happens with coverage of Allied harshness, neither the picture nor many of its captions told the whole story...
...weeks and weeks, Mrs. Anne Potter Hamilton Hunt Spalding had been wondering what Son George's new girl was really like. All she knew for sure was that the young lady came from reputable stock, as attested by a photograph of her father on the hallway table inside the 39-room Beverly Hills mansion. The inscription...
Above the cover words, "Harvard Offers More," is a photograph of the John Harvard statue and a Harvard Yard-ful of mature, serious-looking men. The inside lists all the female job openings, the higher pay rate, the great opportunity for advancement, the responsibility and judgment asked of each employee, and the cultural opportunities of Harvard and the Boston area...
...contacted by the magazine about a feature on the single girl in Boston and asked to round up photogenic Harvard secretaries. Mrs. Marks and Marie Morneault, a secretary in Widener, were selected. Mrs. Marks' wedding ring is artfully concealed behind a pair of white gloves in the photograph. She didn't get to keep the suit...
Unhappily, Author Lyons has produced something closer to an excruciatingly detailed publicity release rather than a definitive and probing biography, a glossy photograph rather than an interpretive painting. Sarnoffs achievements deserve better recognition -and a better biography...