PM, May 14, 1941, p. 18
“The ‘Police Gazette’ Editor” on “We the People” – May 13, 1941
PM, May 13, 1941, p. 22
Hoboes in Jersey City – May 12, 1941
PM, May 12, 1941, p. 8
“The hoboes are holding their annual convention today in Jersey City, and crums, gandy-dancers (railroad workers) and guys in a mokus (drunken stupor) ain’t welcome…”
“Satchmo, 40, Looks Good for Another 20 Years” – May 11, 1941
PM, May 11, 1941, p. 58
Louis Armstrong, photos by David Eisendrath, Jr., text by Heywood Hale Broun.
Looked great for another 30 years…
Success, Seuss, Moses, Hazel Scott, Hunger Strike, Strike… May 9, 1941
In May 1941 $_________ has the same buying power as $_________ in May 2018 (according to bls.gov).
$697,048 – $12,079,938.65 – Louis B. Mayer
$478,144 – $8,286,301.93 – Pres. Bethlehem Steel
$332,267 – $5,758,233.26 – production superintendent, Loew’s Inc.
$278,324 – $4,823,393.58 – Pres of GM
$255,000 – $4,419,185.42 – W.C. Fields
$251,849 – $4,364,578.15 – VP of American Tobacco
$247,965 – $4,297,267.89 – VP of GM
$209,833 – $3,636,435.03 – Deanna Durbin
$150,000 – $2,599,520.83 – Bing Crosby
(Hazel Scott, photo by Steven Derry)
(Artful spat with Moses.)
(Lepke)
(Esposito bros start a hunger strike)
(Manufacturing in New Jersey… On strike… “…They expect a long battle for their little jobs.” Photos by Leo Lieb.)
PM, May 9, 1941, pages: 9, 11, 14
“Body and Soul” – May 8, 1941
PM, May 8, 1941, pp. 6, 10, 15, 20, 21
(Esposito brothers, etc.)
record, progress, premiere
PM, May 7, 1941
(entirely irrelevant)
Designed Distortions
Screenshot from nytimes.com
“10 Polaroids
Design Legend Murray Moss Captures His Beloved Objects — in Polaroids
By Alice Newell-Hanson
March 13, 2018”
“One of the niches for books that is built into a long wall in the living room, paneled with knotty alder wood. I played off photographs by Weegee, pairing Charles de Gaulle with an African mask and Liza Minnelli with vases by Hella Jongerius and Simon Hasan.”
New York Times, March 13, 2018
February 22, 1941: “Unless You Read This Paper You Won’t Know:”
PM, February 23, 1941
“America Discovers Its Own Musical Culture,” by Henry Simon. Photo by Sid Grossman: “Emma Dusenberry and Waldemar Hill,” 1939.
“Plain People, Caught Off Guard, Make Good Pictures,” by Ralph Steiner, photos by Fred Gund and Lou Stoumen.
“This Is How Youngsters React to Saturday Movies… ‘Dr. Maniac Was the Main Feature Seen by This Audience,” photos by Paten-Davis.
Pickle Barrels between a dead drug dealer and a slain anarchist…
Naked City, “A Run for the Money,” March 14, 1962
As this installation view shows, Lieutenant Parker’s office gallery has been rehung… Pickle Barrels, an informant, poses and snoozes below a pair of Weegee photos: “On the Roof,” August 1941 and [Murder of Carlo Tresca], January 1943…. Police officers working over dead men… In an episode of the T.V. series “Naked City” called: “A Run for the Money,” from March 14, 1962… Weegee on T.V…
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