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Sally Rand, titillating terpsichorean, whose art consists of publicly manipulating two outsized feather fans, wriggled out of a $150,747 damage suit. She said she had a right to "some privacy," hence a right to bite and scratch two would-be photographers who had clicked a shutter at a slow-moving fan. A California court agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 5, 1945 | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

...transition from old to new in less than an hour. Two by two the newly elected and re-elected marched forward along the worn green carpet to the president's chair, received a quick, hard handshake from Vice President Henry Wallace, whose unmanageable grey hair closed like a shutter over his forehead with each stiff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The 79th Sits | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

...aluminum-cased affair which was taken to the bottom by iron ballast attached to a block of rock salt. An extending "trigger" rod stopped the camera at the correct height above the bottom for proper focus, and in doing so automatically set off a flash bulb and snapped the shutter. When the salt dissolved, the camera was freed from the ballast and bobbed to the surface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Bottom of the Sea | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

Died. Edward Bausch, 89, famed optical manufacturer (Bausch & Lomb) and inventor; after long illness; in Rochester, N.Y. His iris diaphragm shutter made the snapshot camera practical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 7, 1944 | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

...when the papers called around for their pictures, an embarrassed OWI spokesman stammered something about "mechanical difficulties," finally admitted that its man had been so excited at seeing China's famed First Lady that he had forgotten to open his camera's shutter. The Chicago Times published a one-column square in solid black, gloatingly labeled it: "OWI Photo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Federal Photography | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

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