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...supplementing those acts of courage, there were many others who took frightful risks to help turn Churchill's tide. All over the islands, natives buried any resentment of their colonial masters to serve and die with them. The enduring image of the New Guinea campaign is the photograph opposite, taken by New Zealander George Silk. It shows Private Whittington being led to a field hospital by one of the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels, Orokaiva villager Raphael Oembari, on Christmas Day, 1942. The Australian Department of Information, which employed Silk as a combat photographer, suppressed the photo as potentially damaging to morale...
...decades on, Silk's photograph has lost none of its power, although knowledge of the war's outcome perhaps dulls our understanding of official concerns about its publication. Where now we see resilience, courage, tenderness and indomitable spirit, at the desperate height of the war few would have read in it the signs of an Allied victory. Whittington, like so many of his young comrades, did not return from New Guinea. We owe him, and all of them, a moment of reflection, and a silent prayer of thanks...
ROBERT EVANS likes to keep romance in the picture, if in unconventional ways. At 75, the bronzed, basso-voiced producer of Chinatown proposed to his seventh bride, socialite and twice-married mother of three LADY VICTORIA WHITE, 42, by presenting her with a black-and-white photograph of her and her first, now deceased, husband. Evans pasted an image of his head on the man's body so that his fiancé "can have us both by her bedside at night," he says. After meeting White last November at a screening for the 30th anniversary of Chinatown, Evans married her last...
...takers denied Ahmadinejad's participation. Most of the leading hostage-takers are now reformists and oppose Ahmadinejad's conservative camp, which means they had no apparent motive to protect him. This lent their words credibility. The allegations against Ahmadenijad lost credibility in Iran when it was revealed that the photograph purporting to show a young Ahmadinejad escorting a blindfolded hostage was dug out by the Iranian Mujahedeen-Khalqh Organization, the Marxist-Islamist exile opposition group classified by the U.S. State Department as a terrorist organization. The MKO fought alongside Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq war, and is despised...
...atafu Beach Resort, which today comprises 10 thatch-roofed bungalows and a common area nestled among pandanus and coconut palms. From the outset, Burling's guests were foreigners on surfing holidays. No Tongans surfed at the time - though, for some, their curiosity had been pricked by a 1967 photograph of their (present) monarch, King Taufa'ahau Topou IV, riding a tiny wave for the purposes of a magazine shoot. A hulking figure in black trunks, the King is perched on a board given to him by the legendary Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku, widely acknowledged as the father of surfing. Burling...