PM, October 16, 1940 Vol. 1, No. 89
(to be continued…)
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76 Years Ago Today: “Where to Register for Draft – All Men, 21-36, Must Register Tomorrow…”
PM, October 15, 1940, Vol. 1, No. 88 (Photos by the great Gene Badger!)
Q. “Who must register for the draft tomorrow?”
A. “Every male who has passed his 21st birthday and has not yet reached his 36th birthday…”
(W. would have been approximately 39-40.)
(Charlie Chaplin…)
76 Years Ago Today: “Jersey City Legs Are ‘Exceptionally Beautiful.'”
“…wrote a piece about beauteous legs across the Hudson. Delighted, the Jersey City Journal and Loew’s Journal Sq. Theater joined hands for a Legs Beautiful Contest on the great stage. Some 140 entrants, 16-60, were lined up in squads of 15 and judged from knees down, as above. No. 3 is a ringer, for comic relief. He’s an usher.
Photos by Ray Platnick, PM Staff”
Weegee Negative: FDR and FHG in TC
“11/7/44 Franklin D Roosevelt FDR Broadway Manhattan NYC Old Photo Negative”
Images and words above copied from ebay.
Mayor La Guardia and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Times Square.
74 years ago today: “She told police she was expected to be married soon.”
New York Daily News, February 9, 1942
“Crying Babies Drive Nurse Crazy; She Dopes 2, 1 Dies
Her face pale with grief, nurse Irma Twiss Epstein, whose own baby died a year and a half ago, is booked at Morrisania Police Station in the death of a new-born baby whose crying was ‘driving me crazy'”
[“Aliens Begin Registering. Registration of enemy aliens begins today…”]
PM, February 9, 1942, p. 3
“Here is Nurse Accused of Killing Baby
Distraught and pale with grief, Irma Twiss Epstein, 32 year-old nurse, whose own baby died 18 months ago, is booked on a homicide charge in the death of a baby whose crying, she said, “drove me crazy.” Miss Epstein, Bronx Maternity Hospital nurse, is accused of giving a powerful drug to the 20 hour-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Castro Vallee, whose only other child died after birth 11 years ago. Another infant, 4 days old, was revived by nurses and doctors after Miss Epstein was found in a hallway hysterically sobbing: eyedropper, baby.” Hospital records showed she entered service there in 1940 and after nine months took a leave of absence to have a baby. Police said she had been in Bellevue’s psychopathic ward two years ago for observation after tasking an overdose of sleeping tablets. She told police at Morrisania Station she expected to be married soon. PM Photo by Weegee.”
PM, February 9, 1942, Vol. II, No. 168, p.3
74 Years Ago Today (and/or yesterday): “Off Duty Cop Does Duty, Kills Gunman Who Tries Stickup”
PM, February 3, 1942, pp. 10-11, Vol. II, No. 164
Off Duty Cop Does Duty, Kills Gunman Who Tries Stickup
The boys were playing a little pool and cards in the Spring Arrow Social and Athletic Club, 344 Broome St., near the Bowery last night. Patrolman Eligio Sarro, off duty, went in for a pack of cigarets. Four men entered. “This is a stick-up,” the leader muttered. Sarro was a little slow getting his hands out of his overcoat pockets. “Get ’em up,” ordered the leader, Sarro did. One hand held a gun. When he got through firing, the leader was dead.
The usual curious crowd gathered after the gunman, fatally wounded, staggered from the entrance. He was about 22, dark and chunky. Police said he was Andrew Izzo with a record of six arrests.
Patrolman Sarro smokes a cigaret a few minutes after he dropped the gunman. He’s assigned to the Empire Blvd. precinct in Brooklyn. He lives only a few doors from the club.
PM Photos by Weegee
NY Times, February 3, 1942
75 Years Ago Yesterday… “Winter From the Empire State Building…”
PM, January 26, 1941, p. 32
“Winter From the Empire State Building
Snow was almost gone from pavements yesterday, but it lay thick on skyscraper roofs. No traffic there, 5 to 10 degrees colder. PM Photo by Weegee.”
75 Years ago today… “It’s Not Dead – Only Sleeping”
PM, January 20, 1941, pp. 18-19
PM, January 20, 1941, pp. 18-19 (Not the same page 18.)
PM, January 20, 1941, pp. 18-19 (Not the photo that was published.)
“people from another planet”
PM, June 18, 1940, p.1
“I had been doing freelance for Acme ever since I had left my job with them in 1935 [!!!]. I went to work for PM in 1940. When the word had first got around that a newspaper like PM was being formed, every newspaperman and photographer in the country tried to get on the staff. Except me. I figured that, if they wanted me, they could come and get me. Sure enough, about a month before publication, I met the editor. He said, “Weegee, you’re doing wonderful work. Be sure to bring your pictures to me.” I replied, “Give me a guarantee, and the bet’s on.” The upshot was that I had a roving assignment from PM for the next four-a-half years. I picked my own stories. When I found a good one, I brought it in. All they had to do was to mail me a weekly check for seventy-five dollars… which they did.
[According to an online inflation calculator, $75 in 1940 has the same buying power as $1,271.44 in 2015.]
PM, July 28, 1940, p. 17
Sometimes PM didn’t see me for weeks, I was happy; I got my check every week. When finally I would come into their offices in Brooklyn they would greet me with, “Welcome home, Weegee! Where have you been, on vacation?” I’d say, “Look, what do you want me to do, go out and commit a murder?”
One of the reasons PM eventually folded was that it was ahead of the times. There were not quite as many eggheads around then as there are now. All the lost souls used to read PM and swear by it. You could tell PM readers on sight. They looked like people from another planet waiting for somebody to take them to their leader… which of course, was PM.
Weegee by Weegee, 1961, pp. 85-86
PM, June 19, 1940, p. 19
PM – 2016
A PM gets attention in Chelsea… (January 14, 2016)
“PM New York Daily: 1940 – 48” – Steven Kasher Gallery (January 14 – February 20, 2016)
Great exhibition… (Our rating: 4 and a half speed graphics:-) Everything is for sale…
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