PM, March 17, 1943

RECIPES

Sour Cream Pie

Mix sugar, spices, salt, and flour. Add sour cream, stir, and heat over hot water until thickened. Cover and cook 15 minutes. Pour mixture slowly into Well beaten eggs, and cook over hot water three or four minutes. Stir in the vanilla, and pour into baked pastry shell. Cool before serving.

Peanut Butter Omelet

4 eggs
dash pepper
1/4 cup dilute evap. milk
cup peanut butter
2 tablespoons fat
1/4 teaspoon salt

Beat eggs until light with salt, pep- per, and one-fourth cup dilute evaporated milk. Pour mixture into melted fat, and cook slowly until firm. Spread with peanut butter softened with remaining milk, and fold.

67 Years Ago Today… “No Pants On a Horse, Why On Sally?”

March 17, 2014

1947

PM, March 17, 1947
“Sally Rand Fans Her Art Right Here in New York…”

Sally Rand can be seen dancing here:

Sally Rand can be seen in the movie “Sunset Murder Case” here:

Mad Dog Maps…

March 17, 2014

1941

PM, January 15, 1941

New York Herald Tribune, January 15, 1941

New York Daily News, January 15, 1941

New York Times, January 15, 1941

True, 1941

71 Years Ago Today… “We are against people who push other people around…”

March 17, 2014

1943

PM, March 17, 1943

THIS IS PM…

(From the original Prospectus of PM)

We are against people who push other people around, whether they flourish in this country or abroad.
We are against fraud and deceit and greed, and cruelty and we will seek to expose their practitioners.
We are for people who are kindly and courageous and honest.
We respect intelligence, sound accomplishment, open-mindedness, religious tolerance.
We do not believe all mankind’s problems are now being solved successfully by any existing social order, certainly not our own, and we propose to crusade for those who seek constructively to improve the way people live together.
We are Americans and we prefer democracy to any other principle of government.

67 Years Ago Today… PM Darkroom Developer Revealed

March 16, 2014

1947, PM

PM, March 16, 1947

Photo by the great Morris Engel; his archive is here…

In March 1947, “PM’s darkroom force” consisted of: Alex Fraser, Gus Rickarby, Marty Kunkel, Tim Hoffmann…

The Camera Eye

By Ed McCarthy
PM’s Picture Editor

PMers Cook Up New Developer…

We’ve got a developer here at PM called Algumati. First time I saw it labeled on the crocks in our darkroom, I was impressed. It looked Latin and very scientific. It fooled me completely. For, actually, the name was coined right here on the premises from the first two letter of the names of our darkroom technicians – Alex Fraser,Gus Rickarby, Marty Kunkel and Tim Hoffmann -the four men who cooked up the recipe for this soup.
For a year now, Algumati has been a real PM exclusive. But I have succeeded in worming the formula from its inventors, and they have consented to let it be passed on to any of you who would like to whip up a batch.
Here’s how:
First mix 190 grains metal (developing agent), four ounce sodium sulphite (preservative) in three-quarters of a quart of water at 125 F. Pour into gallon jug. Next, mix 130 grains glycin (developing agent), two ounces kodalk (accelerator) and 22 grains potassium bromide (restrainer) in three-quarters of quart of water at 125 F. Pour this into jug with first mixture and add two and a half quarts o cold water t0_ make full gallon.

Use full strength

This formula was evolved to get the best out of certain contrasty emulsions. It is not intended for all types and makes of film. We use it to process Super XX and Panatomic X. We find it eliminates harshness in highlights, brings out details in shadows and gives full gradation of tones throughout.
Tim Hoffman, spokesman for the Algumati copyright owners, advises that this soup should be used full strength. The average development time (in tank) is about eight minutes at 70 F. Close-up flashes develop in about six minutes at the same temperature. Algumati is effective at temperatures ranging to 75 F. That makes it a swell developer for summer use.
During development, says Tim, the film should be agitated six to eight times for best results. He believes agitation is especially important in the first two minutes of development. That goes not only for Algumati, but any developer.

190 grains metol
4 oz. sodium sulphite
3/4 qt. water
130 grains glycin
2 oz. kodalk
22 grains potassium bromide

“He looked like a sullen, surly, snarling animal…” or “Bandit Killer Cringes…” or Mad Dogs in PM…

March 16, 2014

1941

PM, January 15-17, 1941 (Some of the photographers are: Leo Lieb, Morris Engel, Morris Gordon, Irving Haberman, Peter Killian, and Weegee)
2 Killed, 3 Shot in 5th Ave. Holdup… Here’s How It Happened

“All were bad, vicious movie-type Dead-End kids, gun-toters in their teens, problems for the police. Emanuel and Nino are now in Sing Sing.
For journalism’s most vivid story of Death in Fifth Ave. PM recommends its readers to today’s Daily News. Max Peter Haas, 33, German born photographer, was filling his Leica…”
PM, January 15, 1941

“…the filthy apartment… at 402 E. 11th St. (quoting an early Probation Report) in which the Espositos were reared…”
PM, January 16, 1941

“For the first time since Bruno Richard Hauptmann, police today permitted photographers in the line-up room at headquarters. The subject was Anthony Esposito, under indictment with his brother, William, for the murder of a business man and a policeman in Tuesday’s tragic Battle of Fifth Ave. The angry gunman ducked after Weegee took the above.”
“The detectives manacled to Esposito, didn’t want their names or pictures in the papers. They obliged by turning around, holding the gunman by head and arm so he couldn’t duck again. The yard-stick (top photo) is on the line-up platform, where Esposito had stood, refusing to answer questions. “He looked like a sullen, surly, snarling animal, Weegee reported. “He stumbled and sagged over to one side like a drunk.”

PM, January 17, 1941 (PM Sketch by Gregorio Prestopino)