Word: samanoff
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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Early one morning last May a middle-aged Brooklyn housewife named Rose Samanoff stepped briskly out of her home, started down the street to buy some food for her large family. Stopping at the corner to get a newspaper, she was about to cross the street when she was frozen in her tracks by the sight of two speeding automobiles coming together at the intersection, by the sound of shrieking brakes, screeching tires. That was the last Rose Samanoff ever saw, ever heard. To avoid a collision, one of the cars swerved up on the sidewalk, struck her a deadly...
...word that a woman had been killed in a traffic accident about three miles away. In fifteen minutes Cameraman Cranston was on the scene of what promised to be a dull, routine assignment. The street corner was jammed with Brooklynites pushing and shoving to get a glimpse of Rose Samanoff's corpse lying on the pavement. Police reserves arrived, shooed off all but newsmen and one man who leaned against a doorway and wept. Photographer Cranston saw him approach the body, stare in bewilderment at it, sob, put his hand to his wet eyes. Finding a spot where...
...magazine publishers, advertising art directors and Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia ambled about Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, squinted critically at some 300 pictures of the Press Photographers' Association exhibit. When they had seen everything, they decided that the best spot newspicture in the lot was that of the sorrowing Samanoff, awarded first prize to Cameraman Cranston...
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