I think the Houston Police artist has only scratched the surface of this mystery.
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The famous Eisenstaedt photograph–1945
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Glenn McDuffie holds a portrait of himself as a young man, left, and a copy of Alfred Eisenstaedt’s iconic Life magazine shot of a sailor embracing a nurse in a white uniform, right, at his Houston home Tuesday, July 31, 2007. McDuffie says he is the sailor in the famous photograph and that claim is now backed up by the Houston Police Department’s forensic artist. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
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Houston Police Department’s forensic artist Lois Gibson looks over some of the photographs at her Houston home, Tuesday, July 31, 2007, she used to prove that Glenn McDuffie was the sailor shown in Alfred Eisenstaedt’s iconic Life magazine shot of a World War II sailor embracing a nurse in a white uniform. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
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Glenn McDuffie is shown outside his Houston home, Friday, Aug. 3, 2007. McDuffie wants the world to know he’s the subject of an iconic Life magazine photograph of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square to celebrate the end of World War II. Other men have said they are the sailor, but McDuffie’s claim is now backed by a well-known forensic artist. ( AP Photo/The Chronicle, Melissa Phillip)
Man says he’s the sailor in famous photo
By JUAN A. LOZANO, Associated Press Writer Fri Aug 3, 2:59 PM ET
HOUSTON - Glenn McDuffie has claimed for years that he was the sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square in Life magazine’s iconic photograph of the day World War II ended.
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If anyone just looked hard enough, he said, they would see that it was him in the shot.
Houston Police Department forensic artist Lois Gibson took up the challenge. And after what she called a detailed investigation, Gibson said she has concluded that McDuffie, 80, is the man in Alfred Eisenstaedt’s Aug. 14, 1945 image.
The 2005 Guinness Book of World Records said Gibson has helped police identify more suspects than any other forensic artist. For this investigation, she had McDuffie pose for new photographs in his sailor uniform, recreating the famous pose with a pillow instead of a nurse. She measured his ears, facial bones, hairline, wrist, knuckles and hand and compared those to enlargements of Eisenstaedt’s picture.
“I could tell just in general that yes, it’s him,” said Gibson, a 25-year department veteran. “But I wanted to be able to tell other people so I replicated the pose.
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Auguste Rodin’s over-bearing manner prevented him from maintaining
a stable of male models. Oft times, he had to advertise in Stars and Stripes.
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Gustave Klimt’s The Kiss revealed this original view
after Bulgarian stolen art detectives
discovered the piece in Rotterdam.
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Vivian Leigh could put a smile on any man’s face. She preferred kissing Mr. McDuffie because of his twinkling eyes and his ability to yodel.
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Move over Gary Cooper.
Laconic was out by the time For Whom the Bell Tolls
hit the theaters.
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Bogart was challenging C.Z. Sakall to a knife fight when a certain
sailor turned up to beat his time with Ms. Bergman.
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Because he believed our hero had a John Garfield swagger, James M. Cain wanted him for The Postman Always Rings Twice. Instead, the studio decided on John Garfield.
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Notorious doesn’t convey the half of it.
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The original script of From Here to Eternity called for Fatso Judson to embrace
Burt Lancaster. After seeing the article’s hero go at it with, Deborah Kerr,
Columbia big shot, Harry Cohn, demanded a re-write.
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