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...summer at Swampscott. The voracious photographers of the press petitioned Mrs. Sanders to let them take her picture. She consented-in golf togs-posed on the golf course of the New Ocean House. A golf ball was dropped in a hazard. She took a firm stance, faced the camera and was snapped-with her club grounded on the sand behind the ball...
...knife." Thrifty, but not businesslike, he has left to his brother the management of their donations and of that discreet but widespread publicity which taught the world the excellence of the mousetraps of Rochester. Charles is inflexible in body as in brain. When asked to face the camera, he leaves his feet planted in the direction they are taking, rotates his chunky body solemnly from the hips. His brother, who looks like a dashing admiral, strikes any pose his mood commands. It is he who performs the "attractive" operations; to Charles falls the unpretentious work, the routine that has made...
...news reels are all right. Now news reels are not all right. If Mr. Coolidge knew how unutterably foolish they have made him appear on occasion, his feelings would be quite reversed. Evidently it doesn't embarrass him to kiss seven fat babies before the steady lens of the camera, but how must it embarrass the babies. Mr. Coolidge has been photographed with everything from a Jersey cow to a Blackfoot Indian. He is the greatest star of the news reel. But isn't it a bit undignified, even for a President...
...greatest weapons in the hands of a minority to prevent bad legislation . . . is the roll-call"; the microtasimeter, for detecting slight changes of temperature; the world's first "talking-machine"; carbon filaments for incandescent electric light bulbs; the "Edison effect," an electric valve; the motion-picture camera ; metal filaments for bulbs; the taximeter ; an electric street car and numerous minor contrivances that have brought the number of U.S. patents in his name to over...
...Manhattan last week, Captain Stevens told how he aiid Hinton, the latter suffering continually from malaria, flew from Manaos, on the Rio Negro, up the Rio Branco to the Rio Uraricoera, to the Rio Parima, to the Parima's source, hitherto unvisited by whites. With an aerial camera in their seaplane, they mapped a 1,000-mile stretch accurately for the first time, returning every few days to Dr. Rice with fresh pictures of what lay before him. A radio operator, John Swanson, also flew in the plane. His makeshift stations erected in the jungle effected the first direct...