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Lieut. J. H. Marovish of Los Angeles, the copilot, opened the window. The rain beat into the cockpit, drenching us all. Lieut. Marovish then leaned over the side, aiming his big camera. Again we passed over the ship, almost at mast height. Lieut. Marovish opened and closed his shutter, and came back to his seat wringing wet. Almost angrily he put the camera back into his case. The freighter carried the Panama flag sure enough, but everything about it looked American...
...Tokunaga, faint and trembling, went on about her business. That evening she went to her husband's drygoods store, was surprised to see the shutter closed. A clerk burst into tears when he saw her. Her husband had been in the train. With him died 103 other men & women, including three American soldiers...
...case in point was the handsomely carved mirror of a Bushongo sorcerer, equipped with what seemed to be a quite unfunctional shutter. Actually, the shutter was as important as a camera's; the sorcerer thought that by closing it he could trap the reflections and therefore the very souls of unwary lookers...
Athletes, ecdysiasts, rioters, politicos, and Wellesley hooprace winners are waiting for News Board interviewers. The Business and Photo Boards offer Harvard's only course in finance and shutter-work. Editorial Board writers can speak their mind to 10,300 subscribers...
...Washington's historic Blair-Lee House for a minute. Its severe, four-story facade rises almost flush with the sidewalk on broad, busy Pennsylvania Avenue. Its two entrances are only ten steps above street level. Unless the blinds are drawn, passers-by can peer up into its shutter-framed, white-curtained windows. But if Harry Truman had any misgivings for his safety when he moved into the old residence two years ago while the White House was being made over, he gave no sign of it. Only the Secret Servicemen worried: to them, Blair-Lee House was a perilous...