Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House got under way on Christmas Eve, in the East Room, when Ike and Mamie greeted 516 members of the staff, and presented each with a handsome folder containing a color reproduction of one of Ike's latest paintings: a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, copied from an 1863 photograph. Early Christmas morning, the President, with his wife and mother-in-law, left the gaily decked White House, drove through the silent, deserted streets of Washington, and flew off to Georgia for a family reunion. At Fort Benning they stopped briefly for a light lunch and inspection of their grandchildren...
...owned up that he was the same Harold E. ("Whitey") Dahl, 44, American, sometime soldier of fortune who was shot down while piloting a fighter plane for the Spanish Republicans in 1937 during Spain's civil war. Dahl had been sentenced to death, but his wife sent her photograph and a plea for mercy to Generalissimo Francisco Franco, who pardoned...
...their backless wooden benches. They chain-smoked and tried to keep warm. One started to make a propaganda speech ("I saw Americans bombing our camps with germs . . ."), but the Indian chairman quickly cut him off. The others spoke little, and without passion. Only when the ROK explainers showed photographs or played tape recordings from home did the Red P.W.s show emotion. One moon-faced girl in pigtails stared at a photograph of her home street in Seoul, then cried: "I don't want to see it again." A thin-faced P.W. jumped up when the explainers played a message...
...Your story features the progress of U.S. photography. Is it significant that the cover is a painting of things photographic rather than a photograph of same...
...with Baker's first cover that TIME started its unique portraiture reporting, a technique in which the artist works entirely from photographs. Says Baker: "Having the subject sit through many poses would be impractical both for the artist and the busy person whose face has become so newsworthy. For each assignment the artist is given a basic photograph of his subject plus ten to 30 other pictures which furnish supplementary data on head construction, facial forms and expressions revealed by the different camera angles and lighting. I have searched thousands of photographs for facial forms, from bony structure...