High Paid Shutterby Sells Goods
In a New York profile, top commercial photographer J Frederick Smith explains how he sells products from cement to vodka using sex appeal. He selects models, builds sets, and directs emotion to transform a girl into a marketable image, claiming depth beyond cosmetics and heavy involvement in each shoot.
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Ancient records link 13 to bad luck in Babylon and poker chips tale
A compilation notes Babylonian legend of a king whose 13 wives died in a palace fire and questions whether 12 or 14 would have been safer. It also cites the phrase hand in one's chips as a life end metaphor from poker. Volunteers in Britain in 1768 paid their own military expenses per Britannica.
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