PM Daily, February 19, 1947
Amazing Duke Ellington film, Duke Ellington et Son Orchestra, from the National Archives and Records Administration, on archive.org… Great Duke Ellington discography here…
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Duke Ellington at the Apollo,1947
PM Daily, February 16,1947
65 Years ago today…
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PM Daily, April 13, 1947
65 Years Ago Today…
Meet Miss Virginia Kinn, PM Daily, Photo by Bernie Aumuller, April 13, 1947
Virginia Kinn is a 23-year-old burlesque stripteaser. When she’s in the metropolitan area, she has to play across the river at the Hudson Theater, Union City, or the Empire Theater in Newark because of the local license regulations. “Being in burlesque is like just like any other job,” she said. “As far as own time, we live like anybody else lives – we eat and we sleep. A lot of people have the wrong impression. They think we’re freaks or something…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 11, 1947
65 Years Ago Today: “Jackie Robinson Finally Gets His Chance”
PM Daily, April 11, 1947, p. 23
“Robbie Will Find it Tough in NL
Jackie Roosevelt Robinson, a Negro, has been signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers. This marks the first time one of his race has been on a major league payroll without benefit of subterfuge…
65 Years Ago Today: Cherub
PM Daily, (Photo by Bernie Aumuller), April 10, 1947
Here’s Myra Keck, otherwise Miss Pin-up of 1947, in a pose comparable to that of Bellini’s long-lost painting Venus and the Cherub (that’s in the background). The painting, not Miss Keck, will be shown at the antique Fair. It’s on display now at the Rothschild studio, 119 W. 57th St.
65 Years Ago Today: Collyer Died as He Lived…”
“This is the tunnel-booby trap where Langley Collyer died… Four feet of rubbish covered the body…”
PM Daily, (photo by John Albert), April 9, 1947
“Collyer Mystery Ends; Own Trap Killed Hermit.”
Mystery of the BLACK DAHLIA Murder!
Mystery of the BLACK DAHLIA Murder!
Los Angeles aghast at the crime of a phantom fiend… 1947
(not Weegee… but not bad…)
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