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Weegee Daily… February 3, 1942… Off Duty Cop Does Duty, Kills Gunman Who Tries Stickup…

February 3, 2013
1943, Weegee Daily

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PM Daily, Febuary 3, 1942, p. 11, Vol. II, No. 164
Off Duty Cop Does Duty, Kills Gunman Who Tries Stickup
The boys were playing a little pool and cards in the Spring Arrow Social and Athletic Club, 344 Broome St., near the Bowery last night. Patrolman Eligio Sarro, off duty, went in for a pack of cigarets. Four men entered. “This is a stick-up,” the leader muttered. Sarro was a little slow getting his hands out of his overcoat pockets. “Get ’em up,” ordered the leader, Sarro did. One hand held a gun. When he got through firing, the leader was dead.

The usual curious crowd gathered after the gunman, fatally wounded, staggered from the entrance. He was about 22, dark and chunky. Police said he was Andrew Izzo with a record of six arrests.

Patrolman Sarro smokes a cigaret a few minutes after he dropped the gunman. He’s assigned to the Empire Blvd. precinct in Brooklyn. He lives only a few doors from the club.
PM Photos by Weegee

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Weegee Daily, February 3-4, 2013
Off Duty Photographer Does Duty, Shoots Photo…
The boys and girls were looking at lights and bulbs in the Grand Lighting and Parts, 344 Broome St., near the Bowery tonight…

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344 Broome St., February 4, 2013

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NY Times, February 3, 1942

69 Years Ago Today… Four for a Quarter…

November 27, 2012
1943
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Grant Reynard, PM Daily, Sunday, November 27, 1943

“Four for a quarter.
The quick-photo places are packing them in this Fall. Girls, sailors and Army men crowd the little galleries. Some of the boys come in alone and sit in the bright lights of the tiny booths, wearing their manliest smiles as the cameras click. Girls make up and fix their hair at the mirrorsand, seated on low stools, freeze a startled smile on their pretty faces for their boyfriends…”

(More information about the great Grant Reynard, can be found here.)

69 Years Ago Today… The Singer, The Criticized, and The Critic(s)…

November 23, 2012
1943
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PM Daily, November 22, 1943


PM Daily, November 28, 1943 (Photo by Skippy Adelman.)


PM Daily, November 24, 1943
(Review of Boris Godunoff by Robert A. Hague)

More info about the opera, including two reviews, one by Virgil Thompson:

Moussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov,” which opened the fifty-ninth season (or “Diamond Jubilee” year) of opera at the Metropolitan Opera House last night, is an ideal work for such an occasion. Like “Aida,” it is more a pageant than a play; also, like that other dependable opener of seasons, it is musically beautiful all over. One can come in late or leave early, or get stuck outside for a scene, without losing anything important to the continuity. One misses some good music, but there is always plenty more of that.

can be found here: http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/frame.htm

A nice (although we take issue with: “…his career had become something of a joke”) little article on the Smithsonian.com website, from 11/2005, here: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/night-at-the-opera.html?c=y&page=1

LIFE December 6, 1943, pp. 38-39:

Coming soon: The Weegee Opera!!!

To be continued…

Weegee Daily… October 6, 1943

October 6, 2012
1943, Weegee Daily
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The Man in the Street

PM Daily, October 6, 1943

This is how New York’s garment center received the news from Yankee Stadium yesterday afternoon. PM’s photographer took the pictures through a window as the passing crowd watched the scoreboard in the upper window of the Sachs furniture Co. store. Photos by Weegee, PM

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Weegee Daily, October 6, 1943

This is how New York’s garment center received the news this afternoon. WD’s photographer took the pictures of a window as the mannequins watched the passing crowd through the windows of the Beauty 35, Beauty Supply Store. Photos by Cee(“Lavishly Wild-Fancy Punk”)gee, WD

"Girl elevator operators at Police Headquarters…"

November 23, 2011
1943, John Albert
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Photo by John Albert, January, 12, 1943
“Girl elevator operators at Police Headquarters break an old departmental tradition. Here is Agnes E. Welch, 20, of 600 E. 141st St., at the controls. She is one of two girls who replace men civilian employes who have gone to war. One elevator, however, will be continue to be operated by men; it is used exclusively for transporting prisoners. Photo by John Albert, PM