Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explained his visit to one victim: "Her daughter was pretty." When the prosecution insisted that, on the contrary, she was "of extreme homeliness," Petiot demanded that a photograph be brought to court to support his taste...
...latest edition, which does homage to that event, is published by the Colby Library in Waterville, Me. Readers who cannot get one of the 500 copies of this Jubilee Edition* will miss: 1) a rare reminder that book designing is an art, not a packaging job; 2) a rare photograph of the poet at about the time he was writing his first volume; 3) a set of notes which should interest any admirer of Housman's poetry...
Moscow, greatly interested in atomic energy, focused attention on Canada's National Research Council (custodian of atomic-energy secrets). Zabotin and his men were ordered to photograph and forward to Moscow every document in the Research Council's files. Said a Moscow cable: "Give more details of organization of Research Council. Manipulate so as to get to [its] leaders and find out what they...
...picture. He sassed Rumania's Queen Marie when she asked him: "Don't you ever shave?" Retorted French: "Say, I been following you for the last coupla days at 60 miles an hour. When d'ja think I'd have time to shave?" Sent to photograph a prize canary, French whirled the bird around his head until it was groggy enough to hold still for a picture...
...Pasadena last spring, a bevy of music-lovers went to the railroad station to greet Maestro Arturo Toscanini. Bulky Photographer Howard Ballew was on hand to cover the arrival for Hearst's Los Angeles Herald & Express. Said Wilfred L. Davis of the Southern California Symphony Association, eyeing Ballew's camera: "Are you going to photograph Mr. Toscanini...