Supporters helped him get assignments for Life or Look magazines.
"Almost like I've gotten assignments for an Archie Bunker house or an 'Edward Scissorhands' exterior.
On Saturday, as a blinding sandstorm swept across a sprawling former Iraqi Army base near Falluja, Marine commanders were getting assignments for potential targets, studying maps and planning lines of attack for a battle that they expect could come in the next few days.
Although you will get assignments for great places, they may be at locations where you don't usually shop or eat.
Meanwhile, Ms. Howard studied photography and began to get assignments taking pictures for magazines like Life and Vogue.
"We had been sort of low-class working screenwriters in Hollywood before 'Safety,' banging our heads against the wall trying to get assignments and rewrite jobs for studios and doing studio work on movies that never get made," Connolly said.
"These agencies supported photojournalists by getting assignments and paying usage fees for their stock," said Mr. Falco, who was affiliated with one such agency, Black Star, for much of his career.
In 1946, he began getting television assignments for the network.
Harrison & Star, an Omnicom agency that specializes in health care, got the assignment for advertising in professional journals.
"We can't predict anything, of course," Mr. Bell said, but when PepsiCo acquired the Tropicana line of beverages from Seagram, "FCB continued as the agency" and also got the assignment for Dole juices.
