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Life, August 23, 1937, p. 24

Life on the American Newsfront: Tenement Tragedy is Senate Object Lesson

Torrential rains fell on New York City, Aug. 11. On a cobblestone alley in a dreary little Staten Island valley they flooded the cellar of a 50-year-old factory which had been converted into a six-flat tenement….
Life, August 23, 1937, p. 24


"Atlantic Jump"; Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra; Bennett; Apollo (1065); Publication date: August 12, 1946


Life, August 12, 1946, pp. 8-10

Speaking of Pictures…

…Weegee Shows How To Photograph A Corpse

As part of a six-week photographic seminar at Chicago’s Institute of Design, the stubby, untidy, cigar-chewing Manhattan photographer who calls himself Weegee and who is famous for his pictures of mayhem and murder recently enlivened his course in spot-news photography by showing students how to photograph a corpse…
Life, August 12, 1946


“Bunny”; Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra; Bennett; Gibson; Apollo (1065); Publication date: August 12, 1946


Life, June 12, 1950, p.51

Tussle At The Tunnel

Ancient rivals meet in Brooklyn in fight to be first through tube

“Life” Showed Rivals in 1938

A dozen years ago Life published this strip of pictures showing the first meeting of Horn (left) and Catan as they waited to be first through the Lincoln Tunnel under the Hudson River. Horn started from New York, Catan from New Jersey. They met in the middle, but Catan paid first toll since gates are on Jersey side.
Life, June 12, 1950, p.51


“One O’clock Jump,”; Harry James and his Orchestra; Basie; Columbia (36232); March 6, 1939


Life, May 10, 1943, pp. 34-35 (Photos by Weegee and George Karger)

JITTERBUGS JAM JAMES’S JIVE JAG

News pundits find war phenomenon

…The newspaper PM devoted several scholarly disquisitions to the Harry James jitterbugs…


“Two O’clock Jump,”; Harry James and his Orchestra; James; Basie; Goodman; Columbia (36232); March 6, 1939