Word: cameramen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poet & Piano Mover. Her luminous eyes-so bright that Hollywood cameramen never liked to shoot her too close-and her fine, mobile mouth are often overshadowed by a carefully careless costume: thick, shapeless sweaters, flat shoes, coarse hair uncombed, and the rugged tongue of someone who takes refuge in being thought a "kook." She loves to demonstrate eccentricity. One night she was sitting with a group of friends who were kidding her about her carelessness with money. Promptly Annie pulled a $20 bill from her purse and started eating it, nibbling the edges like a rabbit tackling lettuce. "I just...
...others-two NBC cameramen and Ian Aitken, New York correspondent for the London Daily Express-have been released...
Strenuous & Serious. Though CBC scorns the rating game,*its prize shows are highly popular. Closeup sends cameramen anywhere (Cuba, Egypt, Taiwan), interviews anyone (Evelyn Waugh, Brigitte Bardot), tackles any subject (homosexuality in Canada). CBC is strong on serious drama (recent example: The Crucible') and occasionally goes all out for esoterica: it spent $147,376 on a full-length production of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes. On CBC Folio the Winnipeg Ballet and the Toronto Symphony lure more than 1,000,000 viewers. Says CBC Vice President Ronald Fraser: "We do not degrade viewers to a type...
...which President Eisenhower left last week, Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty was acutely conscious of the press's tendency, when gathered in more than platoon strength, to get out of control. On Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the U.S. last September, some 300 correspondents and cameramen, eagerly vying for the same story, several times turned the tour into a journalistic wreck (TIME, Oct. 5). Jim Hagerty was determined that there would be no such sideshow on Ike's trip. By the time he shepherded the traveling press corps and their gear aboard three buses outside...
...Asia, last spring more than 80 followed him to Russia, eliciting from the Vice President the complaint that he could not easily hold background briefings, a Nixon practice, for so large a number. And when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev toured the U.S. this fall, so many correspondents and cameramen - 300-odd in all - dogged his trail that they sometimes seemed more to be making the show than covering it (TIME...