Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ceremony over, the councilors arranged themselves for a photograph. Herrera pressed Batlle Berres to the front with the courteous "Please go ahead." Smilingly, the new President took the defeated candidate by the arm, sat by his side and said, "With your help, we shall go ahead...
Frames & Freezers. Another scheme is the contest portrait. Any radio listener who identifies a "mystery tune" (usually something as well known as The Star-Spangled Banner) receives a coupon to buy "a $14 photograph" for $1. At the studio the prospect is pressured into buying a frame ($2.95 extra), tinting ($6 extra), and perhaps a whole set of pictures. In Chicago, bait advertisers plug a food-freezer plan. By buying in large quantities from a "co-op," the prospect supposedly saves enough to pay off the cost of a freezer. But, says Chicago's Better Business Bureau: "The savings...
...wrong equipment, a great deal can go wrong with sound. Its top can be lopped off, like a headless amateur photograph, making a violin sound like a flute because its characteristic overtones are gone; its bottom can be restricted, making the basses sound an octave or more higher (or not at all). Overtones can be added that were never played by the musician (harmonic distortion) or be thickened (intermodulation...
...luck of a sort that brought Pfc. Ira Hayes to the summit of Mt. Suribachi on the southern edge of battle-torn Iwo Jima as Associated Press Photographer Joe Rosenthal was setting up the dramatic photograph of Hayes, four fellow Marines and a Navy corpsman raising the U.S. flag. Everyone who saw it was stirred by the picture; it brought Rosenthai a Pulitzer Prize, was made into a postage stamp, finally became the model for a monument in Washington to the Marine dead of all wars. For Ira, the picture was a prelude to tragedy...
...canapés"), and nowhere in Washington could he find a dress suit to wear to the President's congressional reception. After trying all the local tailors, resourceful Representative Tumulty hurried back to Jersey City to see a tailor he knew. While he was waiting for alterations, a photographer showed up, and Tumulty posed (see cut) for the latest published photograph of a politician in underpants.* After all, said Tumulty, "if Marilyn Monroe can do it, why can't I?" At the reception, Representative Tumulty was impeccably turned out in a stylish-stout size 56 tails, trousers...