Word: winners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, after press photographers had scrambled for months to provide Ike with a second-term portrait, Jim Hagerty announced the new winner: George Tames. The Timesman's entry, a third unsmiling pre-broadcast shot, was taken in February when the President was about to go on the air with his annual appeal for the American Red Cross...
...bureau, where he learned to click a shutter by watching LIFE photographers and asking the right questions. He became a full-fledged "head-hunter," as the trade refers to a photographer who specializes in candid head-and-shoulders shots, and joined the Times's Washington staff in 1945. Winner of more than a dozen awards in White House News Photographers' Association contests, shiny-domed Cameraman Tames shares the President's respect for straight, unretouched pictures that tell a story. The deepening groove between the eyes, the tighter lines of the mouth in each succeeding picture picked...
...182Pretty Patricia McCormick, winner of both Olympic gold medals for women's diving, won her final and most important prize as an amateur. For the outstanding contribution to amateur sportsmanship during 1956, the acrobatic Californian now a pro, got the Sullivan trophy...
...Potter, a few weeks previous, had defeated Miami's highly ranked Dave Harum, in Presbyterian's 5-4 upset of the Hurricanes. After losing the first set, Sears contented himself with keeping the ball in play and deep, and when he got the shot he wanted, hit for the winner...
...vast Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum to accommodate 16,000 competitors from all over the country. Last week, after five weeks of clamorous competition, the tournament was still drawing big crowds. With only two weeks to go, the battle was so close that it was still impossible to pick a winner in any of the team or individual events...