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“Like a spider climbing up to the tip of a twig, 46-year-old John B. Dearing last week crawled up to the very top of the Empire State Building’s needlelike television tower, pointed a rare 180°-lens camera earthward, and made the spectacular photograph above. Dearing’s camera, which took in everything from horizon to horizon, covered a radius of 50 miles in this picture. One of Dearing’s legs. . . was wrapped around a conically shaped lightning rod 1,472 feet above the street. . .
“Dearing, an RCA engineer who helped supervise the installation of the 222-foot antenna system, made his picture for Anaconda Copper Mining Company, which supplied much of the metal for the television transmission lines. His trip up the spire was hair-raising in more ways than one. Static electricity around the tower sometimes pricks the skin and makes the hair stand on end. To touch one of the pronged dipoles of the antennas in the wrong place would give him a severe burn. A slip would mean death. But Dearing has been up the tower about 300 times and by now he is nonchalant about it. ‘It’s much more dangerous to be a mountain climber,’ he says. Sometimes, when he is up on the spire feeling on top of the world, he rocks himself back and forth, giddily swaying with the tip of the tower like a monkey on a tree branch.” [From the accompanying article]
Author James Michener, a former U.S. Navy officer, was an embedded reporter on aircraft carriers during the Korean War. His book, “The Bridges at Toko-Ri,” details the experiences of Navy pilots in the Korean War as they undertake a mission to destroy heavily protected bridges in enemy territory. The book was made into a film of the same name in 1954, starring Grace Kelly and William Holden. Here is a clip of the low fuel carrier landing from the film:
Photos by Francis Fuerst accompanying an article entitled 'Speaking of pictures - a young Italian girl likes to imitate olive trees'. The girl's name is Assuntina.
Life Magazine, 17 February 1947
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One of three photos of two young women in pajamas taken what appears to be a hotel room. Photos were found on eBay.
Like ta' Rock that favorite quote from JimiHendrix: "When the Power of LOVE overcomes the Love of POWER, the world will know peace." Yop... (peace)... *T.M.NOEL/ ANGRYHOUZE/ Tha-God-of-DRAW!
Advertisement in the October 12, 1942 issue of Life Magazine, from the Ethyl Corporation pushing a mail-in offer for an illustrated book of names, so you can figure out what your name means.
"What's in a name?"
"Genevieve - means 'white as sea foam'"
"Archibald - means 'bold, valiant, daring'"
"Celine - means 'one who commands'"
"Edward - means 'happy guard'"
"Ethyl - is a trade mark name. It stands for antiknock fluid made only by the Ethyl Corporation."
Designer: Preparatory Committee of the East China Branch of the Chinese People's Committee to Preserve World Peace and to Oppose American Aggression (中国人民保卫世界和平反对美国侵略委员会华东总分会筹委会)
Ca. 1951
The whole world opposes the degenerate headquarters, America is a decadent imperialist country
Quan shijie fandong duoluode daben ying Meiguo shi fuxiude diguo zhuyi guojia (全世界反动堕落的大本营美国是腐朽的帝国主义国家)
Call nr.: PC-195a-s-003 (Private collection)
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