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...higher and far lower. The Italian newsmagazine Panorama purchased two black-and-white reproductions for an undisclosed sum. Exclusive rights to the portfolio were being hawked in other European countries and the U.S. for fees reportedly as high as $62,000. By week's end, the sole confirmed taker was Paris' France Dimanche, which says that it paid only the "usual price" and promises to airbrush Jackie into a bikini. On Times Square last week, scarce import copies of Playmen were selling for $5 and $6-twice the normal U.S. price...
...somewhat larger than he had originally planned, and thus raises "the question of just which pocket it will fit." (Answer: the breast pocket of a man's suit, snugly.) A major innovation in the still-unnamed camera is the single-lens-reflex viewing system that allows a picture taker to see precisely the same image that eventually appears on film. Except for conventional focusing, the entire process is controlled automatically by a tiny system of integrated electronic circuits. For indoor pictures or where the light is poor, the camera uses a five-picture flash unit developed by General Electric...
...years, Nigel John Davies has been a builder's laborer, a bodyguard, a fairgrounds boxer, an assistant at a beauty parlor, a bet taker at a London bookmaking shop, a salesman of nudie films, a shorthand typist, a paint stripper, a bric-a-brac salesman at the Chelsea antique market, and an interior decorator. He has also been unemployed. But all that was before he met a pencil-thin 15-year-old named Lesley Hornby and said: "You're like a twig. I'll call you Twiggy...
Wild was not the first thief-taker to turn a profit in this trade; he was merely the most gifted. A proof of his talent was one of his creations known as the "Lost Property Office." Wild would approach a citizen from whom money or documents had been stolen (generally in a theft organized by Wild), and represent himself as a man whose crime-fighting had given him some knowledge of the underworld. Perhaps he could be of help. In a day or two-sometimes only a few hours-he would return with the suggestion that the citizen appear...
Beggar's Opera. Achievement such as Wild's does not go unnoticed, and one day in front of Old Bailey a betrayed colleague named Blueskin Blake tried to cut the Thief-Taker General's head off with a dull knife. He failed. In 1725, though, Wild was sentenced to be hanged by a corrupt judge (appropriately, on false evidence that he had received a bit of stolen lace). Wild died wealthy, though. During his career the reward for giving evidence rose from ?40 to ? 140, or from $2,000 to $7,000 in modern money, as Author...