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That won't work with a camera. Fans may shout "Open the back shutter" instead of "Kill the ump," but the little black box will reply by disgorging several feet of film clearly indicating that everybody is wrong and it is right. It will go straight on calling them with accuracy, and the crowds will slowly lapse into sullen silence as the little machines take over the game...
...According to Samuel, she grew noticeably more nervous as she caught sight of Wells, aiming his aerial camera with its long-distance lens. "Is he going to take my picture?" she cried. Samuel reassured her: "He's an engineer, holding a measuring box." But Wells continued snapping his shutter, and Samuel said they could hear it. "He's taking my picture!" cried the woman, and jumped to her death...
...eldest of the three sons of hotel-owning Robert and Elizabeth Laughton, he was supposed to follow in their footsteps. But Charles showed his inclination early. He played endlessly with a toy puppet show until his brother Tom, who had built a guillotine out of a camera shutter, beheaded the marionettes. Laughton's next theatrical disaster came at the age of eight: his mother surprised him in a large linen closet, where, dressed in pillowslips and sheets, he was performing dramatic solos before a captive audience of one entranced pantrymaid...
...Good Night. In Milford, Mass., not a creature was stirring in the Red Shutter Restaurant, except someone who journeyed to its Nativity scene, made off with a candle, two angels, a pair of camels, two Wise...
...shot your portrait of the younger generation used a fast shutter. The image was clear, exact, and unblurred . . . JAMES T. POTTER St. Paul...