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...that he was interested not a whit in rank, that his place was with the boys of the ist Battalion. He stayed with us. Wherever the going was toughest on the front line, you'd see Hoffmann strolling along with a shovel. With this he'd scoop out a little depression and then get horizontal for a few minutes beside some G.I. Having spoken, he'd move...
What the newspapers lacked in eyewitness stories they almost made up in swift and excellent picture coverage. First to get to London with photographs of the landings was Acme's stocky, persuasive Bert Brandt (see cut). He would have had a notable scoop if his negatives had not been pooled. Cameraman Brandt took no chances on couriers, made three hitchhiking boat transfers in the rough Channel before reaching England, finished his journey in a jeep. His pictures of the invasion beaches were the first to reach...
Hardly a week goes by without some subscriber asking a question like this-a question that is all the more pertinent because TIME makes no effort to "scoop" the daily press...
...were not only feeble but massive. Many would rather be deaf than use them. In the collection at the College of Physicians' Mutter Museum in Philadelphia there are such monstrosities as an Aurolese phone with a headpiece like a miniature airtight stove, a snakelike ear trumpet, with a scoop intake, the 1896 "London hearing dome" with grilled receiver. At the Philadelphia Society for Better Hearing is an 1894 "hearing fan" to collect sound and vibrate against the teeth. This makes the user look silly but is efficient because sound waves brought in contact with any part of the head...
Marshall Field's quiet Chicago Sun and shrill New York PM were cooing over another London scoop: Kuh had cabled the story of Bulgaria's peace terms a good twelve hours before his competitors came across the story. It is beginning to be news when Kuh is not ahead of a major European story by hours, if not by days. His recent record: the time, scene and dramatis personae of the Hull-Eden-Molotov Moscow conference, some three weeks before it was announced; Italy's surrender, four days before it happened; the basic Allied conditions for peace...