Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enclosing a photograph recently taken in my native compound, and a copy of a letter sent to the nearest American Consul which may be of interest...
Many a groundling has wondered about the sensations of a parachute jumper, particularly in that awful, breathless moment when he drops from the plane, before the 'chute billows open. Those sensations have often been described in words, now they have been described in photographs. Three months ago two Germans, Willi Ruge and one Boettcher, made their first jumps from separate planes at Staaken Airdrome, Berlin, each armed with a small, specially designed automatic camera to photograph the other's descent and to take self-photographs during the jump. These pictures were printed six weeks ago in the Illustrated...
...guarantees the faulty sternposts in four cruisers will be made good by the contractors. Cost: $20,000 each. The Navy borrowed half a gram of radium from Johns Hopkins University to discover the flaws. Capable of penetrating 16 in. armor plate, the radium's gammarays were used to photograph the rudder castings much as a dentist x-rays a tooth. Flaws or pockets in the steel showed as distinct blotches in the finished pictures...
...back cover of the current issue was drawn a burlesque advertisement of "The Ham What Am!", with a large photograph of Crooner Rudy Vallee. When Editor Anthony read that Vallee's mother was dying, he raced to the printer, had the face deleted from the picture, intending to let the whole page pass as pointless. To his distress, he found the result still easily recognizable as Vallee...
...Lefty"') Flynn, Yaleman, onetime All-American football star, thrice before married and divorced (Irene Claire, Blanche Shrove Palmer, Cinemactress Viola Dana); in London. Mrs. Flynn knew her husband in Oregon many years ago, was not divorced from British Architect Paul Phipps until last month in London. A zealous photographer who sought to photograph bride & groom was knocked out by husky Mr. Flynn...