Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here is a photograph of the Selma Burke plaque of President Roosevelt. . . . Comparing it with the photograph published in TIME [Sept. 17], you can see how dreadfully the latter distorts the sculptured head, elongating it from tip of chin to tip of crown, what would amount, I think, to at least two inches. . . . I will say, however, that the plaque was extremely hard to photograph, especially with flash, as the light would bounce off the bronze into the lens of the camera. That is undoubtedly the reason the A.P. photographer took the picture from such an extreme offside angle, thereby...
Descent to the Earth. To the horrified Japanese Home Ministry, it seemed that the Son of Heaven had stepped down to a very earthy earth. The photograph was especially painful, for it showed MacArthur, in informal attire, towering over the fussily dressed Emperor (whom no mortal is supposed to behold from above). The Ministry suppressed editions of Asahi, Mainichi and Yomiuri Hochi, which car ried both the picture and reports of the meeting. MacArthur sternly ordered the banned papers released to the public...
Perfume from Potsdam. It was getting dark when Harry Truman and his daughter crossed the street to visit his aunt, 96-year-old Mrs. Joseph Noland. He had brought her a present-his framed photograph. For Cousins Nellie and Ethel Noland he had three bottles of perfume, bought at Potsdam...
Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Manhattan's big-mouthed Mayor, got a glimpse of an all-but-spitting-image grandnephew, Richard Denes, when Correspondent Kathryn Cravens returned from Germany with a photograph (see cut). She found Richard and the Mayor's sister, Gemma LaGuardia Gluck, in Berlin...
...school. Doctors have long supposed that an individual's head shape changes considerably as he grows up. But Illinois X-ray studies showed that while an infant's head bones and bumps grow bigger, their relative proportions remain virtually unchanged throughout life. Thus, from an X-ray photograph of a newborn infant's head, it is possible to sketch approximately how he will look as an adult...