Word: photographer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...that the historic jar rushed from Philadelphia's Independence Hall to Washington with so much ceremony for the draft lottery was not the one used in 1917? In History of the World War by Frank H. Simonds, Vol. IV, p. 41, there is a photograph entitled "Drawing the First Number" purporting to show Secretary of War Baker pulling out the first of 10,500 capsules. However, the jar is definitely not the one illustrated in TIME, Nov. 11. Mr. Baker's 1917 jar is shaped like a fishbowl and has a small mouth whereas the jar shown...
...hrer's personal Christmas card last week proved to be a fancy job featuring a photograph of the famed Winged Victory of Samothrace, which German troops took from the Louvre in Paris. It now stands in the Berlin office of Adolf Hitler and on the Dictator's greeting card is shown with a flight of German bombers and fighter aircraft. Instead of ''Merry Christmas" the card reads "Our Winged Victory," Recipients: Il Duce, El Caudillo, Rumania's Antonescu...
...TIME fumbled its pictures. The one printed with the Dec. 2 story was a photograph of Dr. Francisco Luiz da Silva Campos, Minister of Interior and Justice of Brazil. Herewith, a photograph of the real Jimmy Marshall...
...front page of Moscow's Pravda appeared a photograph of two blandly smiling statesmen. The caption: "Comrade V. M. Molotov and Mr. A. Hitler in the new Reich Chancellery...
...colorblind. Many animals can be taught to detect slight differences of shade, but when variously colored disks emitting the same intensity of light are presented, the animals are baffled. Thus a dog sees the world, including his master, in various shades of grey, as in a photograph. But birds, fish and insects can distinguish colors...