Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eddie Savoy, sombre, longtime messenger (60 years) at the offices of the Secretary of State, received an autographed photograph from Sir Esme Howard, retired British Ambassador to the U. S., in token of courtesies received. Recently the Japanese naval conference delegation, stopping at Washington en route to London, presented Messenger Savoy with a platinum and diamond stick...
...great difficulty with stories in which sport is used as a background against which a nice fellow and a knave compete for a girl, is that the big horse race, or prize fight, or poker game on which love and honor and the happy ending depend, is hard to photograph. Everything moves wonderfully up to a certain point, but after that one of two things must happen: either the spectator struggles with the technicalities of the selected background, or the director shirks the responsibilities of his climax, brushing through it with a shot of a crowd cheering, or Lord Weatherton...
...Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York decided that the New York American had been guilty of criminal libel in so printing the pictures of Zbyszko & Ape. had given the plaintiff cause for action. Further ambiguity was banished by Justice John V. McAvoy who described the photograph as that of a "hideous-looking gorilla," declared that it tended to disgrace Zbyszko, and to bring him into ridicule and contempt...
...ultimate journalistic impertinence. It has equipped one Dr. Erich Salomon, under the pseudonym of "Cyclops," with a camera which will take pictures of people where they have never been successfully snapped before?in ordinary electric lamp light. This enables him, for example, to attend a great banquet and photograph a queen with a spoonful of soup at her lips. For the past ten months the Graphic has published such stealth-got snapshots. Last week Graphic readers smirked and tittered at the "Unsuspected Moments" page. Not only had "Cyclops" got a picture of the Belgian Ambassador to Holland sitting...
...Garry Allighan. Anglo-American newspaperman, compared British news tactics disadvantageously to U. S. methods. Journalist Allighan said that he had been 14 years in newspaper business on both sides of the Atlantic. Holding every position from reporter to managing editor, he had burgled a Detroit home for a photograph, caught neuralgia at a Montreal theatre fire...