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put that on he said, “O.K. take it off. But, I'll tell you, it will be in there hair by hair.”

Q:

Were photographers in and out of the offices all the time.

Heiskell:

Sure because when you were working on an assignment you would usually talk to the photographer before setting out. You nearly always talked to the photographer before the story was executed. So you got to know them quite well. Carl Mydans turned out to be a great buddy of mine because we went through the fall of France together. I knew, I knew a lot of them.

Q:

What about Wilson Hicks and their relationship with him?

Heiskell:

Well, there was a sort of hate-love relationship between photographers and Wilson, because he was mean, tough, dictatorial, wouldn't even argue with anybody. On the other hand, he also did know his stuff, and they respected him because he did know what it was about. Who else did I know? Gjon Mili who invented the strobe photographic system which allowed you to take a picture at ten-thousandth of a second or a millionth of a second or something like that. Eliot Elisofon, who became so famous for his animal pictures, for his cooking, and God knows how many other things. Dmitri Kessel, the Russian emigre--taught me all about vodka, and how many different kinds of vodka there are. I remember once spending an evening with him in Paris, and he was testing me on, I guess, my capacity, by telling me that there were at least 50 different kinds





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