Getty Image Roundup: The end is nigh

Indignity Vol. 4, No. 193

JOE MACLEOD, Tom Scocca

04 Nov 2024 — 7 min read

With all four hooves off the ground, 'Whirlaway,' with jockey George Woolf up, crosses the FINISH LINE to win the $10,000 Pimlico Special, Baltimore, Maryland, October 28, 1942. (Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images)

PHOTO FINISH DEP'T.

October Is Over and Our Monthly Image Bounty Says It's Time to Be Finished With Things

TOMORROW IS ELECTION Day, we're almost done, it's almost done, everything's almost done, it's the end, it's the beginning of the end, it's the beginning of the beginning of the end.

And it is, once again, time to share with you, the readers and particularly the paid subscribers, our monthly Getty Images Photo Roundup. To provide you with a properly illustrated full-service publication, Indignity has purchased an annual subscription to Getty, allowing us to choose from Getty's wide selection of topical and newsworthy photographs and illustrations. And to make sure all of us get our money's worth, at the end of each month, Indignity delivers a bonus collection of photos, to keep using up our annual allotment at the appropriate rate.

In light of our being on the eve of the beginning of the beginning of the beginning of the beginning of the end, Indignity presents our October photographic theme: FINISH LINE.

Running the anchor leg, American Wilma Rudolph crosses the **FINISH LINE** to win the women's 400-meter relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. The victory gave Rudolph her third gold medal of the Olympics. September 8, 1960.

SANDY HOOK, NJ - JULY 30: Lifeguards dive for the **FINISH LINE** in the National Women's Life Guard Tournament July 30, 2003 in Sandy Hook, New Jersey. The Jersey Shore, a 127 mile stretch of coastline known for its variety of beaches, boardwalks, small towns, natural beauty and summer crowds, has been a popular summer destination for over a century. (Photo By Amy Toensing/Getty Images)

Eingeschränkte Rechte für bestimmte redaktionelle Kunden in Deutschland. James Cleveland ('Jesse') Owens, American athlete - 1936 Olympic Summer Games in Berlin: Owens reaches the **FINISH LINE** first in the 100 meters sprint - August 3, 1936 (Photo by Lothar Ruebelt / ullstein bild via Getty Images)

14 Feb 2002: Exhausted competitors collapse at the **FINISH LINE** (from top to bottom) Roman Leybyuk of the Ukraine, Lukas Bauer of the Czech Republic and Thomas Alsgaard of Norway after finishing the Men's 10km Cross Country Free Pursuit at Soldier Hollow at Heber City during the Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games in Utah.\ DIGITAL IMAGE. \ Mandatory Credit: Donald Miralle/Getty Images

NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 7: A kaleidoscopic crowd of 30,000 runners surges across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge during the New York City Marathon on November 7, 1999 in New York City. Most have endured months of training for the reward of crossing the **FINISH LINE**, exhausted and exhilarated, after 26.2 miles. (Photo by Joe McNally/Getty Images)

January 31, 1964. American skater Janice Smith face down in the snow, after falling at the **FINISH LINE** of the Winter Olympics 1500 metres speedskating event, in Austria. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Jessica (L) and Leah Longfellow pose for a photo with the Easter Bunny during the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House April 1, 2002 in Washington DC. The Easter Egg Roll, in which young children to race to the **FINISH LINE** while pushing their eggs with a spoon, was first held in 1878. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Marathon Director Bill Cloney Trying to Stop Female Runner. (Original Caption) In the Boston Marathon, one of two women running in the normally all-male-race, Kathy Switzer, (261) of Syracuse, New York, is being hassled by BAA Marathon Director Bill Cloney, as he attempted to stop her from competing. The dark-haired girl did not show up for the physical examination required of all starters, (had she appeared at the starting line, she would never have been allowed to compete). she remained in the race, but was never seen near the **FINISH LINE**.

TIP INDIGNITY! WE DON'T STOP!

WEATHER REVIEWS

A blue sky with a thin widening contrail running diagonally from three-quarters down the left size to the upper right corner, with various blurred contrails crossing it semi-vertically in the left third of the frame.

New York City, November 3, 2024

★★★★ The yellow light behind the closed blinds spoke of no identifiable hour. The cold seeped through the window so strongly it was necessary to check top and bottom to make sure neither sash was open a crack. A flannel shirt came out of dormancy on its hanger, and the jacket and hoodie that had been taking turns went on together as layers. Contrails cut across the sky in various directions and at various stages of diffusion. People in cloth coats were walking up the Central Park West sidewalk carrying posterboard cheering signs from the marathon. A family exclaimed at how foul the drop zone of the ginkgo on the path to the Pool smelled. A host of birds, heavy on grackles, came rattling and clattering and croaking down through the brush and trees toward the water. A passing woman with a wheeled walker doubled back to share the word that from the opposite shore, the light off the trees was reflecting spectacularly on the water. She hadn't oversold it: colors quaked on the water as mallards screamed. If the foliage was more sparse than before, it was still intense; the last tiny leaves high up in the top of a black tupelo were furious red in the expanse of gnarled bare branches. A knot of green-winged teals dabbled in the shallows, making the mirrored water ripple like mercury. On the way up the Great Hill a side field was walled in by brilliance, with even the dullest brown leaves joining in. An elm, more than half bare, stood decked in Klimt spangles. A blue jay landed near a cardinal, two more spots of primary color overhead. Huge wasps' nests hung exposed. A red-bellied woodpecker called from the trees, and the lawn was covered with juncos calmly browsing among the oak leaves, as if they'd been living there all along.

EASY LISTENING DEP'T.

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SANDWICH RECIPES DEP'T.

WE PRESENT INSTRUCTIONS in aid of the assembly of a sandwich selected from Benson Woman's Club Cook Book, Containing Over Four Hundred Of Our Own And Our Friends' Choice Recipes, collected and compiled by Benson Woman's Club, published in 1915, now in the Public Domain and available at archive.org for the delectation of all.

CHEESE FILLING FOR SANDWICHES.

Melt slowly together 1/2 pound cheese, 1 lump butter and 1 tablespoon milk. Mix together 1 egg, pinch of salt, and 1 teaspoon mustard. Add to above ingredients, and season with 1 tablespoon vinegar added last.
—Mrs. G. H. Tuttle.

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