Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recently, a Chicago commercial photographer received a written request from a Latin American advertising agency for a photograph of a certain model. She should correspond, the agency explained, to a phrase in TIME which said: "She just makes you feel thirty." After some research the photographer found that the phrase referred to Louise Hyde, who was mentioned in TIME'S cover story on Model Lisa Fonssagrives (Sept. 19, 1949). However, TIME had quoted Miss Hyde's television sponsor, a soft drink manufacturer, as having characterized her as "the girl who makes you feel thirsty...
Knowing Giuliano's affection for his mother ("the dearest thing in our lives"), Meldolesi wangled permission to photograph the old lady in jail (where she is being held for helping her son). Roaming the countryside, he showed the pictures to every peasant, carter and fisherman he met, hoping one would pass the word along. A month passed, with nary a nibble. Late one night, as Meldolesi and Reporter Jacopo Rizza wandered into the hills near Palermo, three masked gunmen seized the photographs, led the pair to an abandoned stable. Next morning, the door flew open and in strode Giuliano...