Word: wirephoto
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...here for a B-Western version of the saga of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Cyra's first home was the midnight blue 1937 Packard that carried her parents from one raucous engagement to the next: "By my third birthday, I had logged 150,000 miles, occasion for an AP wirephoto captioned: 'She Sees America.' " She also witnessed an endless string of saloons and her parents' behavior in them: "Pat was a two-fisted drinker. Cy was a drunk, charming and good-humored when sober, combative and cold-eyed when drunk." Liquor fueled fights between them, as did their constant lack...
...film. Meanwhile, film was getting "faster," allowing pictures to be taken in almost any light. Thus equipped, the photographer had become, like the modern soldier, a self- contained, highly mobile warrior. His lines of communication were greatly extended in 1935 when the Associated Press inaugurated its first Wirephoto transmission service...
...body was unhitched from a hospital machine last week and allowed to join his brain in death four days after a left-right combination by Ray ("Boom Boom") Mancini flattened him 19 sec. into the 14th round outside a casino in Las Vegas. In the background of a wirephoto showing Kim lying still, a striking number of the Caesars Palace spectators are balling their own fists. More than 50 years ago, Writer Irvin S. Cobb described the fight fan: "He is a soft-fleshed, hard-faced person who keeps his own pelt safe from the bruises, but whose eyes glisten...
...Mexico incident as a jumping-off point and that the decision by our editor was made under pressure. I never even had the heart to tell that editor that if he had looked more carefully in the file marked "A.P." (for Associated Press), he would have found a wirephoto that would have served his purposes--a picture of one of the New Mexico inmates poking his nose between the bars of an old wooden jail door, looking like he honestly regretted what he'd done to put himself in that position...
...American advance party will set up a satellite ground station at Peking airport to provide full teletype, telephone, wirephoto and television transmission facilities. The newsmen will arrive Feb. 20, a day ahead of the President. Ziegler promised interviews with Chinese, tours of schools and communes, comfortable hotel rooms and invitations to state banquets -a rosy picture for the few fortunate enough to make the trip...