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Here below. (photograph of photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White)
IT was one of those steamy mid-July dog days in New York, fit for neither man nor beast, but apparently good enough for the running of the 1944 National Track and Field Championships.
Since the Yankee Stadium, Central Park, and City Hall were booked for the day, the meet was being held on a rehabilitated slum of a "stadium" on Randall's Island, hard by one of the city's newer bridges.
Why would the AAU schedule a championship meet at such a time and place? Maybe because there was a war on and Randall's Island was the safest place in the world. Hardly anyone knew where it was and those who did had no way of getting there except by parachute.
At about 10 ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Silver, Joanne March 27, 1998 700+ words
...the frozen ground and temperatures fell to 27 below zero, Margaret Bourke-White began photographing the many forms of power harnessed...promise - and perils - of the modern era. "Power and Paper: Margaret Bourke-White, Modernity and the Documentary Mode," at the...
