Word: photograph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...west coast of Eire, an abortive attempt was made to damage a hotel in Tralee where bespectacled, 25-year-old Francis Chamberlain, only son of the Prime Minister, was on holiday. Most Britons had forgotten that the Chamberlains had a son; British picture agencies, deluged with requests for his photograph had none. Young Chamberlain has been employed for a year as a $25-a-week apprentice at the Witton plant of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., where he is learning the armament business from the bottom...
Walker Evans, 35, and Edward Weston, 52, were born in St. Louis and Highland Park, Ill., respectively, but Evans went east and Weston went west. Like most artists of his generation, Evans got as far east as Paris. He returned to photograph life on the eastern seaboard with solitary detachment, a refined eye and a sharp sense of history. Meanwhile, Weston was in business as a portrait photographer in Glendale, San Francisco and finally in Carmel, California. Among professionals his off-hour studies of dunes, shells and vegetables became noted for their miraculous clarity. In 1936 he won the first...
From a candid camers photograph, taken by a drama-conscious customer, Colonel Apted had suspected Geer of being related to a salesman jailed for similar activities several years ago. He declined to state whether or not his suspicions were confirmed...
...most part in the Law School, who were living not in the Yard or in Houses but in boarding houses or apartments. Until "Geer" is known to be operating within University precincts, trespassing, the racket is exclusively a Cambridge police problem. Colonel Apted provided the town inspectors with a photograph of the swindler to help them in tracing...
...photograph was secured when a suspicious student secretly snapped "Geer"? with a miniature camera on one of the con-man's visits to his room. Colonel Apted declared that Peter Geer was an alias, and that he recognized the man from the picture as the notorious brother of another "salesman" who was jailed several years...