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Photographer Robert Capa, who spoke five languages, was once asked which language he "thought" in. After mulling over the question, Capa answered: "I think in pictures." Most of the pictures Capa thought in were of war. As a LIFE staffer in World War II, Capa earned a reputation as the best combat photographer in the world. Although he hated war ("It is like an aging actress: more and more dangerous, and less and less photogenic"), Capa was seldom far from the front lines. Armed with three cameras and a flask of Scotch, he jumped with U.S paratroopers into Nazi-held...
...story did not explain why no builder could do the job in the St. Louis area, so Armstrong assigned P-D Reporter Carl Baldwin, 45, to find out. Baldwin, a P-D staffer for 23 years, quickly found the reason: "St. Louis [had] become the capital of labor rackets in the construction industry...
...Geographic staffer since 1905, La Gorce is as much a part of the magazine as its trademarked, yellow-bordered cover. The walls of his cyprus-paneled office in the Geographic's museumlike building on Washington's 16th Street are lined with trophies - an elephant's foot, a 13th century crusader's sword, a caveman's club-from his years of globetrotting. (In port cities, La Gorce makes straight for the pawnshops, often finds valuable trinkets that sailors have pawned.) Mountains in Alaska and the Antarctic bear his name, as do an island and a golf...
Publisher of the sport magazine is H. (for Harry) H. S. Phillips Jr., who has been with TIME Inc. for 18 years and was advertising director of TIME. Managing Editor is Sidney L. James, ex-staffer of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, who also came to TIME Inc. in 1936 and was assistant managing editor of LIFE. Said Editor-in-Chief Henry R. Luce: "The new magazine will be a re-evaluation of sport-not an over-evaluation-to put it in its proper place as one of the great new modes of expression...
...popularity of the highway as a tourist attraction (annual revenue up from $476,000 in 1946 to more than $1,000,000 last year) that started News Staffer Verne Williams, 34, on the expose. With such big earnings, wondered Williams.why should the highway still charge a toll...