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...American Language. He reported that the Baltimore Sun had invited him to report both political conventions this year. "I'm an old reporter and I can't stand by ... I'll probably end up by going," he forecast, "and blowing up and coming home on a shutter. Oh, well. It's a heroic death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 5, 1948 | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

Upwards of 2000 pictures will appear in the Album, Weisberg said last night, and anyone from any class in eligible to take them. He urged prospective shutter-snappers to approach him in his don, which, he described as "Leverett House E-21", at any hour of the day or night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Album Photo Chief Issues Cry for Aid | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

Upper-class shutter bugs will gather to draw up a constitution and elect temporary officers for a College photographic society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meeting Tonight Will Form Photo Society | 11/20/1947 | See Source »

Mata Haris was available to fight the Communists. Through a crack in the rear window shutter (the press was barred from the theater), the reporter watched the girls, "sitting erect and in good order," being addressed by a police official. "During this time of our Government's general mobilization," the official said, "you should stand by your posts and remember your duty to your country. [Your part] is as important as city walls and regular garrison troops." They should find out, he added, "what lies within the hearts of your guests and influence them toward .correct thinking." If they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Sixth Column | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...took a long time to investigate the call. The police chopped away the Collyers' bolted front door, and were confronted by a solid mass of newspapers, cartons, old iron, broken furniture. Finally a patrolman went up a ladder, opened a shutter, swept his flashlight into a cavelike burrow. Homer was sitting on the floor. He was naked except for a thin and tattered bathrobe, his long white hair hung down to his shoulders, and his hand rested near a shriveled apple. He had been dead for some hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Shy Men | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

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