1941

PM, October 9, 1941 p.15

Brooklyn School Children See Gambler Murdered in Street

Pupils were just leaving P.S. 143, in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, at 3:15 yesterday when Peter Mancuso, 22, described by police as a small-time gambler, pulled up in a 1931 Ford at a traffic light a block from the school. Up to the car stepped a gunman, who fired twice and escaped through the throng of children. Mancuso, shot through the head and the heart, struggled to the running board and collapsed dead on the pavement. Above are some of the spectators…

Brooklyn Eagle, October 9, 1941, p.3

New York Daily News, October 9, 1941

LONE GUNMAN KILLS GAMBLER IN AUTOMOBILE

A small-time Brooklyn gambler, Peter Mancuso, 23, was slain at 3:20 P.M. yesterday when he stopped his car at the crowded intersection of Roebling St. and N. Sixth St., Brooklyn.

A lone assailant darted up to the car and liquidated Mancuso with two bullets fired at close range through the open front window…

One bullet hit Mancuso in the head, another in the heart. With a dying effort he got the door of the car open and toppled into the street…

Meanwhile, P.S. 143, a block away, on Havermeyer St., was just letting out. The slayer dashed down N. Seventh St. heading for the school and zig-zagged among the crowds of children… the fugitive darted into Havermeyer St. and disappeared.

Buffalo Courier Express, October 9, 1941, p.1

Washington Post, October 9, 1941

The Knickerbocker News, October 9, 1941, p.9

“I Know Why (And So Do You)”; Carl Hoff and his Orchestra; Tony Russell; Gordon; Warren; Okeh (6478); Publication date: October 9, 1941

“…Sports ‘Porcupine’ Model”

September 29, 2024

1941, LIFE, Weegee Life

Life, September 29, 1941, pp. 12-13

Life, September 29, 1941, p. 13

Speaking of Pictures…
Tom Dewey Sports “Porcupine” Model
Life, September 29, 1941, p. 13

“Spring Scene”

August 5, 2024

1941, Murder Inc., PM

“Let’s Go Home”; Charlie Spivak and his Orch.; S. Williams; Holland; Burke; Okeh (6366); Publication date: August 5, 1941

PM, August 5, 1941, pp.18-20

The Rise and Fall of Lepke Buchalter
Climax of O’Dwyer War on Murder, Inc.; One of City’s Biggest Racketeers on Trial
PM, August 5, 1941, p.18

PM, August 5, 1941, p.20 (PM Photo by Weegee)

Spring Scene And here’s what happened to Sidney (Shimmy) Shales last April. Shimmy was on the lam from a federal indictment linking him to 14 Lepke-ites. Early in the evening he was sauntering up Fifth Avenue when a bullet plowed into his thigh. The marksman then bent over him, jammed his gun against Shimmy’s temple and fired four more shots. None of the hundred who crowded around the corpse would say he had seen the killer. And Shimmy couldn’t.

“To Your Heart’s Content (Acercate Mas)”; Charlie Spivak and his Orch.; Farres; Okeh (6366); Publication date: August 5, 1941

Happy Birthday Weegee!!!

June 12, 2024

1941, PM

“Happy Birthday”; Eddie Davis and his Orchestra; Sittin’ In With (520); 1949

PM, March 2, 1941

“Happy, Happy Birthday Baby”; The Tune Weavers; Frank Paul’s Orch.; M. Sylvia; G. Lopez; Checker (872); 1957

PM, March 9, 1941

A picture with somebody in it sells better than a picture of a lifeless object. So Weegee sometimes puts himself in his picture-shooting them by “remote control.” Here he is posing as a “curious passerby” looking at the body of a Brooklyn murder victim found in trunk near the Gowanus Canal.
PM, March 9, 1941

“Happy Birthday To You”; Raymond Scott and his New Orchestra; Clyde Burke; M. J. Hill; Columbia (35864); November 29, 1940

“Happy Birthday”; Craven Edwards And his Lazy K-Ranch Boys; Len Stokes; Hill; Diamond (2007-A); June 1946

PM, March 9, 1941

Weegee makes friends readily. On a Chinatown assignment he got this New Year’s lucky wish from a Chinese girl. He has a photo of her painting it pinned above his bed (see picture on next page). It is characteristic of him to have his picture taken this way. The cigar is standard equipment.
PM, March 9, 1941

“Today Is Your Birthday”; The Enchanters; Buddy Lucas and his Band of Tomorrow; Bernstein; Levine; Odom; Geritz; Jubilee (5072); 1952

“Happy Birthday Father (From)”; Harry Tush and his Society Orchestra; Rondoliers; Avalon (502A)

PM, March 9, 1941

Weegee’s room shows his devotion to his job. On top of his regular radio is a police short-wave radio and a loudspeaker attached to it dangles over his bed. On the floor are his special “murder shoes” – at left – and his “snow shoes.” He keeps his “fire shoes” in his car. The wall decorations are examples of his work and certificates of awards for prize-winning pictures. The cardboard boxes at the extreme right are his disorderly “files.” The typewriter is his latest acquisition. He has recently taken up writing – a field in which he shows rather startling talent. We don’t know what the Flit is for.
PM, March 9, 1941

“Birthday Party”; Sil Austin; J. Collins; Mercury (71027); December 25, 1956

Happy Birthday Weegee…

“Holiday Accidents…”

August 31, 2023

1941, PM

PM, August 31, 1941

Holiday Accidents

took their toll as motorists started on their Labor Day week end… the Motor Vehicle Bureau says about 40 will die before Tuesday in New York State.

“Weegee has a Salon”

August 27, 2023

1941, Photo League, PM

“Don’t Leave Now”; Ink Spots; “Slim” West; Jimmie Davis; Decca (25378 B); Publication date: August 27, 1941

PM, August 27, 1941, p. 1

“Storm Ties Up Subways…5 Pages
This inferno-like scene is one of the results of tortential rains that wept New York, causing the worst subway tie-up in history. A lightning bolt hit a gas main in a subway excavation, dropped an auto into the resulting cave-in, stated a three-alarm fire… (PM Photo by Irving Haberman)”

“The Weather Bureau also termed 2.13 inches of rain in that brief spectacular on and one-half hours “extensive precipitation.”” p. 15

PM, August 27, 1941, pp. 15-18 (Photos by Irving Haberman and Gene Badger)

PM, August 27, 1941, pp. 14-15

PM, August 27, 1941, p. 14

“Weegee Has a Salon: Arthur Fellig, the night-prowling cameraman who turns in many of PM’s choicest pictures of fires, wrecks, rescues and crimes, is having a one-man show of his own at the Photo League, 31 E. 21st St. The exhibit will run through Sept. 6.”

“Ring Telephone Ring” Ink Spots; Buck Ram; Peter Tinturin; Decca (25378 A); Publication date: August 27, 1941