Word: photograph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...associate editor of Harper's, Best-selling Novelist Merle Miller (That Winter) waxed indignant at a rival, Bestseller Truman Capote (Other Voices, Other Rooms). At a Manhattan forum on publishers' methods, Miller took pained exception to a ripely precious publicity photograph (TIME, Jan. 26) of a pensive, reclining Capote peering up through artfully disarranged bangs. If the idea of printing that particular photograph was Capote's, Miller fumed, it was "deplorable"; if his publisher's, "disgraceful...
Gloria Swanson's daughter, Mrs. Robert William Anderson, appeared in a Town & Country magazine photograph with little Christopher and Lawrence-la Swanson's grandchildren...
...creators are sure by now that all will be well. Soon, Hubble will take his first photograph of the depths of space. It will be a historic night - an extra-clear night with the sky velvety black and the stars, though bright, twinkling hardly at all. Hubble will go into the observatory after dusk, rise to the big round telescope chamber in a push-button elevator...
Hubble will know how to find the tiny bit of sky he wants to photograph. He will telephone instructions to an assistant down at the control desk; the massive telescope will swing almost silently. When Hubble is satisfied that it is pointed right, he will put a plate in the holder, watch through a microscope, and make careful minor adjustments while the scattered photons of nebula light (some of which have been traveling for a billion years) make their marks on the photosensitive emulsion...
...plate, when Hubble develops it, will not look like much: only a few faint smudges of silver granules on a film of gelatin. By itself, the first photograph may prove little, but there will be many others. Added together, they may tell man things about his universe that have puzzled him since he came here to live...