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M AY PREUSS ( 2 '16), is one of the leaders in placement work for the un-
employed in New York. The bureau in which she works as Placement Sec- Did you wonder how Mar-
retary is different from the average in that it tries not only to find work for garet Bourke-White took
applicants, but also to find work which they will be content to do permanently. the picture of the Chrysler
This bureau is housed by the State Employment Bureau and is sponsored by River- spire ? Well, here she is, bal-
side Church, the Charity Organization Society, and also by former Governor Al anced on a scaffolding,
Smith's Committee on Unemployment. While another young woman scours the many feet above Lexington
country for jobs, Miss Preuss attempts to find the right person for each. Her Avenue. A most daring
experience in personnel work with the San Francisco Community Placement Bu- business card, wouldn't you
reau and Californians, Inc., stands her in good stead.—California Monthly. say?
Itysalie Qoodhart Active in Dramatics COURTESY TIME MAGAZINE
DURING the past year, the Footlighters were led by Gordon Zimmerman, presi- IN 1930 Margaret Bourke-White ( O i l ) , expert camera-woman traveling free-lance
dent; Helen Mead, vice president; Virginia Cooke, secretary; and Ralph Wil- with Governmental blessing, took 800 photographs in Soviet Russia. Artistically
liams, treasurer. Next year the players will have Gordon Zimmerman as presi- in love with her work, she took great pains, gave none. Happy posers said "Thank
dent, Virginia Cooke as vice president, Rosalie Goodhart (IIA), as secretary, and you" when her shutter clicked; one woman even wept for joy. The Russians "con-
Herbert Eby as treasurer.—Diamondback. sider the artist an important factor in the Five-Year Plan, and the photographer
the artist of the Machine Age." They appreciated Bourke-White. Starting as their
Omicron Team Wins basketball Tournament photographer she soon became their comrade.
SORORITY basketball champions! These girls known in official circles 3S mem- In "Eyes on Russia," 32 selected pictures are accompanied by running com-
bers of Alpha Omicron Pi cage sextet, gave a packed Jefferson Hall auilience ments from under the black cloth. Sprightly travelog, philosophy, technique, anec-
a great exhibition of basketball Wednesday night when they rose to supreme dotes focus the view through the ground glass. I n front of Bourke-White's sympa-
heights to defeat Zeta Tau Alpha—their first defeat in three years—and to gain thetic but anastigmatic eye files the Five-Year cake-walk—agricultural, industrial,
the top of the ladder. probably unworkable. The spirit of the proletariat was irresistible; but industrial
idealism, sauced with scarce goods and inefficient service, she found hard to swal-
A 0 on low whole. Living on cold canned beans, on "hard" trains that gave her few
transports, she loved the Great Experiment with a grain of salt.
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The photographs range from one-man shots to the greatest dam in the world.
P AOU A The selection includes not too many machines, almost enough men. Her pictures
confirm the conviction that photography is an art, that she is a photographer of
the first hypo.
Margaret Bourke-White was graduated from Cornell in 1927, went home to
Cleveland where she became a professional photographer when she found her
hobby paid. Otis Steel Company gave her her first big job, which she did so
*ell that Cleveland's Van Sweringen brothers engaged her to take pictures of
jheir Terminal Tower project. Then Fortune sought her, Brought her to Man-
hattan. Now at 26, her income is $50,000 a year. Nervy, she has gone where her
'ye led her, never takes no for an answer. She has shot pictures in Canadian
umber camps at 27 degrees below zero, on the spire of Manhattan's Chrysler
"wilding, where it took three men to steady the tripod. Her 1930 New York
Usiness announcement, an ascending view of the Chrysler spire taken from atop
^ e scaffolding, made recipients gasp. I n her recent five weeks in Russia she had
V e proposals of marriage. She uses an Ansco "view-type" camera (but always
^rr'es a Graflex, too); develops her plates herself.—Time Magazine.
Left to right, front row: Smith, Scott, Nowlin, Koclla, and Gunn. Back row: FoSte*'
WttStU, Wagner, Stewart, Maiden, and Hale. Inset: Mabry.—"KnoxvMe NeW
Sentinel."
