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

Life, September 27, 1947 p.104

Helping the cops in 1943, Mayor La Guardia [December 11, 1882 – September 20, 1947] braces himself grimly…
Life, September 27, 1947, p.104

Life, August 23, 1937, p. 24

Life on the American Newsfront: Tenement Tragedy is Senate Object Lesson

Torrential rains fell on New York City, Aug. 11. On a cobblestone alley in a dreary little Staten Island valley they flooded the cellar of a 50-year-old factory which had been converted into a six-flat tenement….
Life, August 23, 1937, p. 24

Life, August 17, 1942, p. 96

Life, August 16, 1943, p. 33

Mayor La Guardia braces himself against the rail at the West 123rd Street police station in conference with officials of the Fire Department on the night of the riot…
Life, August 16, 1943, p. 33

"Atlantic Jump"; Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra; Bennett; Apollo (1065); Publication date: August 12, 1946

Life, August 12, 1946, pp. 8-10

Speaking of Pictures…

…Weegee Shows How To Photograph A Corpse

As part of a six-week photographic seminar at Chicago’s Institute of Design, the stubby, untidy, cigar-chewing Manhattan photographer who calls himself Weegee and who is famous for his pictures of mayhem and murder recently enlivened his course in spot-news photography by showing students how to photograph a corpse…
Life, August 12, 1946

“Bunny”; Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra; Bennett; Gibson; Apollo (1065); Publication date: August 12, 1946

Life, July 12, 1937, p. 29

Striking teachers occasioned New York’s liveliest WPA demonstration of the week…
Life, July 12, 1937, p. 29

Life, June 12, 1950, p.51

Tussle At The Tunnel

Ancient rivals meet in Brooklyn in fight to be first through tube

“Life” Showed Rivals in 1938

A dozen years ago Life published this strip of pictures showing the first meeting of Horn (left) and Catan as they waited to be first through the Lincoln Tunnel under the Hudson River. Horn started from New York, Catan from New Jersey. They met in the middle, but Catan paid first toll since gates are on Jersey side.
Life, June 12, 1950, p.51

“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