Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprised to see "Manolete's" name under the photograph of an unknown bullfighter executing a "manoletina." This pass is supposed to be an invention of his, but I am sure the identity of the "matador" was yours...
...three people disappeared. Many of them had nothing to do with politics, but fear inhibits opposition. Next, opposing leadership was wiped out. Top officials of Maniu's National Peasant Party were jailed for plotting to overthrow Groza. To prove how guilty they were, newspapers printed an official photograph which showed twelve of the accused, with two pilots and piles of baggage, "preparing to flee" in a rickety old single-engined, three-place biplane...
...Other photographers were hosed by elephants, yawned at by lions, spat on by monkeys. One had his tripod snatched from under him by a crafty chimpanzee he was trying to photograph. Eileen Darby, who took the pictures at the St. Louis zoo, underwent an encounter with an orangutan named Henry that is still keeping her awake nights. She had to get within reach for a close-up shot, and Henry, a friendly sort, put an arm around her. When he put the other arm around her and started to wrestle, she looked anxiously at the keeper and asked...
...look more closely at itself-particularly at the relatively unknown north. From Ottawa's Rockcliffe Airport, a Lancaster bomber, carrying cameras, thousands of feet of film and a crew of seven, took off for Churchill, in northern Manitoba. Other Royal Canadian Air Force detachments have been assigned to photograph Canada's uncharted wildernesses from the eastern slopes of the Rockies to the tundra wastes of the Northwest Territories...
...alleged photograph of a single disc taken by Californian coast guardsman Frank Ryman, which would shake the jet stream hypothesis, might well turn out to be a flaw in the lens upon critical examination, Professor Mather ventured...