Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mary Martin's attraction for College men was confirmed last week, when the promise of a personal letter and photograph lured Joseph C. Snow '46, of Winthrop House into leading the bond and stamp sales with a purchase...
King of the Black Market. In Chicago, Fulton Market buzzed with rumors about Pete Golas. Pete was paunchy (220 lb.), greying (52), scarfaced and vain. He refused to have his picture taken, as he considered a 15-year-old photograph (see cut) his best portrait. Until last fall, he was just a small-time peddler of livers and hearts. From dark meat to black meat was an easy step for Pete. He branched out grandly and mysteriously, bought control of a string of slaughterhouses from Omaha to Manhattan...
...phones keep ringing and the rewrite men step into the booths to take the stuff from the stringers in the corner drugstores, and the presses are booming downstairs on the early edition, and cigaret smoke hazes above the grey men with the eyeshades in the slot. And the photograph forms itself on the revolving cylinder, seen through three thousand miles of atmospherics; the makeup man dummies...
...news has a strong tendency to be news of the abnormal or disastrous events of life; the camera's patient eye finds equal fascination in the characteristic doings of people, the enduring and mysterious images of places. Already a supranational language of entertainment, the cinema and the news photograph, with television, may in the future become a world-teaching art which artists of all nations may practice...
...Havana Riverside Casino fished him out of tough waterfront cafes. Last week Valdes finished off an eight-week run at La Conga, where he made such a hit that one of the nightly duties of the headwaiter was to wipe off the lipstick feverish women had implanted on his photograph in the lobby...