Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/24

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Subject: [Leica] Images: Summer Vacation Part 3
From: Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Tue Aug 24 14:12:24 2004
References: <BCEKKGNGDPMOIPMEJONBMEGNFIAA.phong@doan-ltd.com>

Say this quickly... 5 times:

Cornell played the Coronet in Connecticut?



Phong wrote:
> That was Andrei (Robert Capa).
> What about Cornell ?  Why and when did he change
> his name ?  I may one day change my name from the name
> I got from my father;  but I doubt I would use the same 
> name my brother picks, should he choose to change
> _his_ name.   Possible, but very highly unlikely.  But of
> course, I am not Cornell, and he may have his own
> reasons.  Anybody knows ?
> 
> - Phong
> 
> 
> Jon wrote:
> 
>>"Ok.  So back to Cornell.  Why his name Capa, and not Friedman ?"
>>
>>
>>According to PBS biography:
>> "As a down-and-out expatriate in Paris, Friedman changed his name to one
>>that resembled a Hollywood director he admired, Frank Capra, and suddenly
>>his photographs began to sell."

> 


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