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While Steichen was thus occupied, a younger generation of photographers had come along who believed that when Steichen turned his back on painting he had not turned far enough. They saw the camera as essentially a documenter of physical reality. They admired Matthew Brady's diamond-clear, sober pictures of the Civil War, Eugene Atget's photographs of Paris in the early 1900s a great deal more than Steichen's highly lit personalities in Vanity Fair. Steichen's love of lighting effects and studio magic (see cut) seemed to them stagy. Among these photographers were Berenice...
...twins, she greeted him three years later as though he had only been out for a walk. But her price was the old Pharaoh empire, his divorce from Octavia. This last move, says Ludwig, marked the point where her emotions began to cloud her statesmanship. It is his sober opinion that she helped Antony's defeat at Actium because she feared that victory would result in his going off with a younger woman...
...Governor Herbert Lehman. In its second appearance last week, it not only held the balance of power in New York's municipal election but helped elect Democrat Thomas F. Holling as mayor of Buffalo, cut a wider swath by supporting 13 successful candidates for the State Assembly (including sober young Robert F. Wagner Jr.), besides a good share of delegates to New York's forthcoming constitutional convention...
...rising consumption of native U. S. whiskey. To relate this last-named fact to the cinema involved a statistical triumph of sorts, but the researchers of the Distilled Spirits Institute (formed after Repeal and headed by erstwhile Prohibition officer Dr. James M. Doran) collated the findings of its sober field workers, arrived at the conclusion that screen bibbers were shown drinking Scotch almost exclusively, to the detriment of an impressionable public...
Stettinius has just turned 37, has a big backlog of executive training. Son and namesake of the original Edward Reilly Stettinius, Morgan partner and U. S. director of Allied Munitions' purchases during the War, "Little Stet" craved a career of his own. Already grey-haired and sober as an undergraduate, he was well liked at the University of Virginia. Starting out at the bottom in Hyatt Bearings Division of General Motors, he rose with meteoric rapidity through industrial and public relations to a vice-presidency. During the heyday of NRA he was one of Hugh Johnson's aides...