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
1941
“Spring Scene”
“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!!!
“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…”
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”
“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
“…And Not One Was Lost”
“Gotta Find My Baby”; Doctor Clayton; Joe Clayton; Bluebird (B-8901-B); Publication date: November 11, 1941
745 Moved to New Prison And Not One Was Lost
[$20,000,000 had the same buying power as $387,028,571 in October 2022.]
PM, November 11, 1941, p. 18
Waxy Gordon…
“Doctor Clayton Blues”; Doctor Clayton; Joe Clayton; Bluebird (B-8901-A); Publication date: November 11, 1941
“…Vote Early and Often!”
PM, November 4, 1941
“This is the old tombs.”
“I’m a Prisoner”; Eddie Boyd and His Chess Men; E. Boyd; Chess (1606); 1955
PM, November 7, 1941 (Photos by Irving Haberman)
Prisoners Go to the New ‘Tombs’ Some Dark Night Soon – Shhh!
“Jail Bird”; Joe Mitchell; King Curtis; Monarch (MO-703)
“Murder by Suggestion”
“How About That Mess”; Lucky Millinder And His Orchestra; William Anderson; Decca (4099 A); Publication date: November 6, 1941
PM, November 6, 1941
Murder by Suggestion:
“Let Me Off Uptown”; Lucky Millinder And His Orchestra; Trevor Bacon; Earl Bostic; Redd Evans; Decca (4099 B); Publication date: November 6, 1941
Screenshots, “Ladies in Retirement,” 1941
Ladies in Retirement, 1941
PM, November 7, 1941 (By Louise Levitas)
Some Crackpot Ladies Make Murder
“That’s All”; Lucky Millinder and his Orchestra; Rosetta Tharpe; Decca (48057 A); Publication date: November 6, 1941
“We got the Mayor out of bed to pose for pictures.”
“I’m Gonna Vote for a Democrat”; Yogi Yorgesson; Johnny Duffy and The Scandahoovians; Harry Stewart; Capitol (2135); 1952
Re-elected, and relaxed: The Mayor and Mrs. La Guardia at 1: a.m. today.
La Guardia Sees 4 Years of Hell
New Photographers Rout Mayor Out of Bed for Victory Pictures
PM, November 5, 1941 (Photos by Steven Derry, Ray Platnick, John De Biase)
Orderly Crowd Turns Out for La Guardia’s Re-election
We took this picture at 1 a.m. La Guardia said to caption it: “We got the Mayor out of bed to pose for pictures.”
This is the election night crowd at Times Square, watching for results from the ‘Times’ bulletin board. The crowd was well behaved – in fact this election was the most orderly in the city’s history, with no violence reported.
“Get Out And Vote” (part 1); Johnny Standly; Jimmy Sheldon’s Orchestra; Johnny Standley; Leon Pober; Capitol (3544); 1956
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