Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee held a passport application which demonstrated how the trick was turned. It was dated Aug. 31, 1934, bore the name of a Communist writer, Samuel Liptzen. It was filled out in the handwriting of a left-wing lawyer, one Leon Josephson. Clipped to it was Eisler's photograph...
Carder-Bresson was a corporal in the French army, spent 36 months in German P.W. camps. Twice he escaped and was recaptured. The third try worked. He went underground in Paris, emerged to photograph the liberation of fellow French prisoners by the Allies. Some of the results-such as his picture of a Gestapo informer being recognized by an ecstatically vengeful ex-prisoner at a D.P. interrogation center (see cut)-were masterpieces of tragic force...
...Kobak is an unpressed little man with a face that might have been clipped from any old banquet photograph -shy, inexact grin, blurred eyes, tired grey hair. Actually, he is a sensationally successful huckster, known far & wide among radiomen as The Great Salesman. He loves Donald Duck, practical jokes and the Notre Dame team. He signs his letters with a great big friendly "Ed." In his office is an eight-foot bull whip; Ed likes to snap it around and make like a slave-driver. But all his employees know that Ed is just kidding; he's really...
Yousuf Karsh is a lively, bald-pated little man with a mission: to photograph the faces of the great men of his time. That became his ambition after he came to Canada from Turkish Armenia at 15 and went to work in his uncle's photographic studio in Sherbrooke, Que. Eventually Yousuf Karsh set up his own studio in Ottawa and before long his dramatic, three-dimensional portraits had made him Ottawa's top photographer. Then, on Dec. 30, 1941, Winston Churchill came to town...
...Charles Evans Hughes sat statuesquely for 45 minutes before intoning: "And now, lettest thou thy servant depart in peace." When Britain's wartime bomber chief, Lord Portal, appeared direct from the barber's chair, Karsh suggested they wait two weeks because a new haircut "automatically makes a photograph unfit for publication...