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...gone sardine fishing off the coast of Maine, reported Danish markets, shopped Les Halles in Paris, donned a sou'wester at 3:30 a.m. to see how mackerel are caught off Long Island. She sometimes ladles out such unembellished advice as "remember lamb breast and shank today" or "snap beans are a vegetable buy," and always provides basic food facts on price, quality, recipes and tastes for everyone from the meat-and-potato man to the high-living gourmet. But mushrooms are not just mushrooms in her column, they are likely to be "pixie umbrellas...
...spent $300 million this year on cameras and gadgets, in order to snap Haitian market women, Manhattan shoeshine boys, Indian fakirs, and (above all) Junior, aged three. Innumerable times he went through the sweet agony of fetching his prints from the corner drugstore or the mailbox,* and if his work did not come out well, he blamed the unknown vandals in the darkroom, the makers of the camera, the film, the subject, and sometimes even himself. He spoiled about 10% of his film, enough to make individual shots of the entire population of the North American continent, and took enough...
...that "photography is the most important instrument of journalism which has been developed since the printing press." ¶ Mass production of cameras and film got under way when a Rochester, N.Y. industrialist named George Eastman invented the Kodak. Eastman coined the name to be pronounceable in any language and "snap like a shutter in your face." He also invented the slogan: "You press the button, We do the rest." By 1896, twelve years before Henry Ford started mass-producing autos, Eastman was manufacturing cameras by the thousands, and film by the hundreds of miles. Price of the first Kodak...
...Would you want to go back?" And with this question the Cambridge Cahaly came back with a snap...
...general, it was a team victory, and if anybody is a team, sophomore guard Bill Meigs is. The best lineman local fans have seen in a long while, Meigs never stopped scrapping from the snap of the ball to the referee's whistle; incidentally, 12 of the whistles Saturday came after Meigs had personally upended an Indian ball-carrier...