Archive

1943

“Miss Victory”

June 28, 2025
1943, Circus


PM, June 28, 1943, p.16

When the Big Top Comes to Times Square

“Miss Victory,” Eglie Zacchini, is shot out of a cannon at a speed of 360 feet a second. Weegee got this unusually difficult picture at a performance, using a telephoto lens at 1/1000th of a second.

Minnie the bear, who appears with her husband Bill in Larry Sunbrock’s Big Top Circus, knows when payday is – and gets in line early.

This is the “Big Top” – first three-ring circus tent to be pitched in Manhattan for 100 years – in a former parking…
PM, June 28, 1943, p.16


Weegee’s World, p.230

“If you see…”

July 6, 2024
1943, PM


PM, July 6, 1943, p. 10, PM Photo by Weegee

If you see an air-raid warden carrying a stick like this – which happens to be a sawed-off billiard cue – or a police billy, tell the Police Dept. at once. Wardens are not allowed to arm themselves. And don’t be misled by the statements of the Brooklyn wardens who carry these clubs. They say they’re an “anti-mugging patrol” guarding subway stations and escorting unattended women home from them. But there’s no crime wave in Brooklyn.
PM, July 6, 1943, p. 10

“…seems happy about the idea…”

July 5, 2024
1943, PM


PM, July 5, 1943, p.10, PM Photo by Weegee

Police Commissioner Valentine says he hasn’t heard of air raid wardens carrying night sticks. PM herewith prints a picture of one who seems happy about the idea…
PM, July 5, 1943, p.10

“Runaway cats…”

May 10, 2024
1943, LIFE, Weegee Life


“One O’clock Jump,”; Harry James and his Orchestra; Basie; Columbia (36232); March 6, 1939


Life, May 10, 1943, pp. 34-35 (Photos by Weegee and George Karger)

JITTERBUGS JAM JAMES’S JIVE JAG

News pundits find war phenomenon

…The newspaper PM devoted several scholarly disquisitions to the Harry James jitterbugs…


“Two O’clock Jump,”; Harry James and his Orchestra; James; Basie; Goodman; Columbia (36232); March 6, 1939

Happy Birthday Weegee

June 12, 2023
1943, 1945


Weegee (1899-1968), [Weegee typing captions], 1943

Photography’s self-nominated genius at his portable office, typing captions at two A.M.


Weegee (1899-1968), Naked City, 1945


“Weegee Tells How,” 1958

Happy Birthday Weegee

“…heiress slain early Sunday…”

October 26, 2022
1943, PM


“A Collection of Favorite Hawaiian Songs”; Dorothy Lamour; Dick McIntire And His Harmony Hawaiians; Del Lyon; Lani McIntire; Gordon Beecher; Johnny Noble; Alfred Newman; Frank Loesser; R. Alex Anderson; Decca (23323 A / 23323 B / 23324 A / 23324 B); Publication date: October 26, 1943

Murder Hunt Centers on Husband’s Missing Uniform


PM, October 26, 1943, p 11

The body of Mrs. Patricia Burton Lonergan, heiress slain early Sunday, is removed from her Beekman Hill apartment. Photo by Weegee, PM
PM, October 26, 1943, p 11


“Murder in the First Degree”; St. Louis Jimmy; Burton & Oden; Parrot (823); April 1956


October 26, 2022

[Weegee was on the spot for the murder that resulted in “one of the most sensational trials of the 1940s.” (NY Times)… Wayne Lonergan was in Sing-Sing prison for more than twenty years. He was “sentenced to 35 years to life after his conviction on second degree murder charges, [he] was released in 1967 and deported to Canada. He lived quietly in Toronto, where he died of cancer.” (The New York Times, January 3, 1986)… (The $385 monthly rent that the Lonergans paid for the triplex apartment, the first three floors of the building, built in 1939, is about $6,600 today)…]


“It’s Murder”; Lil Armstrong And Her Swing Orchestra; Lil Armstrong; Buck; Armstrong; Decca (1182 A); 1936