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...fact, that a stereotype was created of the catcher as a slightly more alert version of Steinbeck's fabled Lennie, as a good-natured dolt who blocked pitches and flying spikes by day, then lumbers out of the clubhouse stroking a dead squirrel in his coat pocket. The catcher's cumbersome equipment was even dubbed the "tools of ignorance" by one of the trade's own, "Muddy" Ruel of the old Washington Senators, whose unenviable job it was to bring down Walter Johnson's smoking fastball. But ignorance is not strength in the complex world...
...character does not yield to either form of inquiry. She resists all approaches but the physical. It is her defense and, as both Paul and Pierre come to realize, her means of survival. One day, walking in the country near her home, Pierre pulls a notebook out of his pocket and scribbles a passage that compares Rosemonde to the salamander, a creature that can survive any trial, even fire...
...Allen used so many switches that friends in the trade referred to him as Allen Woody. He carried a sword on the street, he said; in case of an attack it turned into a cane, so people would feel sorry for him. He carried a bullet in his breast pocket; someone threw a Bible at him and the bullet saved his life...
Garbage-Free. When folded, the SX-70 is about half the size of many old models, small enough (about 11/10 in. by 4 1/5 in. by 7 in.) to fit into the breast pocket of a man's jacket. It weighs 26 oz. and is completely automatic, even to film advancement, which has had to be done manually (and sometimes faultily) in all previous models. The most unreal thing about the SX-70 is its film, which will cost no more than current Polaroid color film (about 45? per picture). Flicking out of the camera only 1.2 sec. after...
Eastman's successors are developing many innovative cameras of their own. Besides producing the new pocket Instamatics, which are expected eventually to outnumber the 60-million old-size units in use, Kodak in the last year has scored an important breakthrough in motion-picture photography. It has brought out two new 8-mm. cameras and a high-speed Ektachrome film that enable photographers to shoot movies indoors with no special lighting. In fact, the cameras produce adequate close-in pictures even when the only lighting is the candle power of a lit-up birthday cake. The bother of setting...