It’s the Shiver and Shake…
Quiver and Quake
Picture of the Year!
PM, October 30, 1941, p. 14
The Katz Salami
In the Army Now“This is Katz’s – that’s all. Short and sweet. You don’t have to say nothing. I’m the original.”
…Now Katz’s salami is in the army – that’s right, yes. Send a salami to your boy in the army – that’s a Katz slogan.”
Unidentified Artist, Crime Does Not Pay #22, July 1942
Crime Does Not Pay, Volume 1 republished by Dark Horse Books, 2012
More info here: Dark Horse Archives.
Weegee, Naked City, 1945, p. 163
In the Line-Up Room
This guy killed a cop in a hold up. First he got a black eye… then the electric chair in Sing Sing prison…
PM, October 29, 1944, p. m2
FDR at Broadway and 49th Street. With him on the back seat is Sen Wagner. Mike Reily, head of the White House Secret Service detail, watches the crowd from the running board. Photo by Weegee
PM, October 29, 1944, p. m3
INSIDE MANHATTAN
By Grant Reynard
The President goes by
PM, October 28, 1945, p. m12
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Margo gets in Fredric March’s hair. The Tina and Maj. Joppolo of the play, A Bell for Adano, which closed Saturday night, photographed at a farewell party for the cast… Margo [1917-1985] had just smeared March’s [1897-1975] hair with icing from the party’s 450-pound, bell-shaped cake… Photo By Weegee
PM, October 28, 1945, p. m13
Leahy Honors PM Coast Guardsman Adm William Leahy presenting a Navy citation to Chief Photographer’s Mate Ray Platnick, in Washington this week. Chief Platnick, in the service more than three years, returns to PM Nov 5. His photo, Coffee Drinkers, taken during the battle for Eniwetok Atoll, won second prize in work of 100 Navy combat photographers in the Pacific.
PM, October 27, 1941
Saved: When fire swept a vacant tenement at Pitt and Broome Sts. early yesterday, families in an adjoining house fled to the street in nightclothes. Lydia Krepa, 13, took her cat Billy with her. “He was so scared,”she said. PM Photo by Weegee
PM, October 27, 1941
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
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)…]
Scarface, 1932, Screenshots
Underworld, 1927, Screenshots
PM, August 23, 1940, Exclusive Photo by Weegee
Masked, Armed Bandits Rob Manhattan Mail Train
Mail Clerk Brooks Hall waiting for police to saw away handcuffs clamped on by bandits.
Rome, NY, August 24, 1940
Train Robbers Shackle Mail Clerk
Brooks Hall (center) railway mail clerk on a New York Central train held up by six gunmen at the Marble Hill station in New York City, was shackled to an iron post in the mail car, along with his companion. The robbers escaped with a mail pouch which they apparently thought carried money shipments but which postal authorities said carried nothing of value.
Albany, August 24, 1940 (Associated Press Photo)
Shackled by Train Robbers
