The nurse in Alfred Eisenstaedt’s famous photo of a sailor kissing her in Times Square has passed away. Edith Shain was 92.
Eisenstaedt is quoted as saying this about the photograph: “In Times Square on V.J. Day I saw a sailor running along the street grabbing any and every girl in sight. Whether she was a grandmother, stout, thin, old, didn’t make a difference. I was running ahead of him with my Leica looking back over my shoulder but none of the pictures that were possible pleased me. Then suddenly, in a flash, I saw something white being grabbed. I turned around and clicked the moment the sailor kissed the nurse. If she had been dressed in a dark dress I would never have taken the picture. If the sailor had worn a white uniform, the same. I took exactly four pictures. It was done within a few seconds…”
A Lebanese television host who was arrested during a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia and sentenced to death as a sorcerer for making predictions on his TV show could be executed any day…
Thursday, the last day of the Saudi week, is a traditional day for beheadings in the kingdom… –timesonline.co.uk
This little guy was in my back yard this morning. Earlier, he was snoozing under the crab apple tree in the shade. I wonder if he was just a little hung over from the fermented apples he might have been snacking on that were littering the ground.
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