September 30, 2008

Vaudevillians #6


W.C. Fields

Men of the West #30


Ben Johnson

When Legends Gather #458


Peter Lorre and John Gilbert

Friends and Family #42


Original Caption:

John Roselli, a reputed underworld figure from the days of Al Capone, arrives under tight security to appear before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to testify about his connection with the CIA and an alleged 1961 plot to assassinate Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. (1975)

S is for Steichen #9


Ed Wynn

September 29, 2008

Before and After #148: Julie Christie

Before:


After

The Present Day Composer #67


Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

Annals of Crime #36


Original Caption:

Mississippi -- Elmer Kimbell of Glendora, Miss., being held for the shotgun slaying of Negro service station attendant Clinton Melton on December 3rd, has refused to say "whether I did any shooting or not." Authorities say he earlier claimed to have shot in self defense. Kimbell was wounded himself but a witness says Melton was not armed at the time of the shooting. (1955)

Artists in Action #431


Andy Warhol studies his 1965 psychodrama Beauty #2

Seminal Image #866


Barry Lyndon
(Stanley Kubrick; 1975)

September 28, 2008

Nuns Gone Wild! #1


Original Caption:

Grayland -- Three nuns play in the ocean surf near Grayland, Washington. They were part of a group of seven nuns who were able to spend a week at the seashore as part of a new vacation program. (1960)

This Week's Weegee #44

The City: Reno #5


Original Caption:

Reno -- Sammy Davis Jr. offers cake to Bill Harrah, from an exact replica of Harrah's 250-room, $27 million hotel-casino. Davis acted as master of ceremonies at the dedication luncheon, Nov. 10, as his wife, Altovise, looked on. (1973)

Fun at Bohemian Grove #33


Bohemians struggle with a redwood (1895)

When Legends Gather #457


Walter Winchell, Carole Lombard and Clark Gable

September 27, 2008

Paul Newman dies at 83


The wire obit can be read here.

Seminal Image #865


Stalker
(Andrei Tarkovsky; 1979)

Action, Now! #2


Original Caption:

Placards at Entrance to White House Grounds.

Washington -- Several placards were carried by women, seeking the release of political prisoners at the entrance of the White House grounds recently. The General Amnesty Committee is behind the movement, and presented the President with a petition on July 20 said to have been signed by one million people throughout the United States. (1922)

Artists in Action #430


Eddie Cochran browses

I Like the Christian Life! #3


Original Caption:

Chicago -- Evangelist Billy Graham speaks to members of 18 rival gangs in a youth center in Chicago, June 9. Gang leaders sat in the front rows and their lieutenants and members took seats behind them. "Jesus was a tough guy," Graham told them. The teen-agers, some 175 in all, listened quietly and not one of them left until Graham had finished. (1962)

Tricky: Scenes from a Life #62


Tricky resists hypnosis (1969)

September 26, 2008

The Art of the Panel: EC #1


from Death's Double-Cross
(by Wallace Wood)
(Crime SuspenStories, #1; Oct-Nov, 1950)

Artists in Action #429


Maurice Chevalier waves

An Illustrated History of American Labor #10


Original Caption:

New York -- A striker points out something of interest to Rev. John M. Corridan, S.J., Associate Director of the Xavier School and adviser to dock strikers. The Rev. Corridan, a recognized expert in labor, said the Wildcat Dock Strike is largely a revolt against Joseph P. Ryan and the racketeers and mobsters along the waterfront. The Rev. also predicted that even if strikers return to work "an explosion is brewing on the waterfront which will make this strike seem like a picnic." (1951)

When Legends Gather #456


Boris Karloff and Joe Penner

Poets are both clean and warm
And most are far above the norm
Whether here or on the roam
Have a poet in every home! #35


Stephen Vincent Benét

September 25, 2008

Jesters of the Republic #12


Milton Berle

The Civil War: Dramatis Personae #5


Gen. George B. McClellan

The Art of Cinema #337


Une femme est une femme
(A Woman is a Woman)
(Jean-Luc Godard; 1961)

The Heretofore Unmentioned #32


Booth Tarkington

Old New York #30


The Eden Musee (1900)

September 24, 2008

Annals of Crime #35


Original Caption:

Burned-Up Suitor Burns Girl's Home.

Detroit -- William Sykes, a little man of mighty passion (he weighs 105 pounds) is shown, hands on hips, as he talks to detective Fred Wilkinson, who weighs somewhere between 300 and 400 pounds, questioning him in connection with a fire. The fire was in the home of Mrs. Lisette Adams who had kept company with Sykes while she was separated from her husband. Then she went back to hubby, William C. Adams. Mr. Sykes was spurned. He burned and finally set fire to the Adams home. March 3 (1955)

The Art of American Fantasy #20

They Were Collaborators #508


The Weavers

Aftermath: Japan #3


Original Caption:

Maidens of Hiroshima Look Ahead.

New York -- The Hiroshima Maidens, a group of Japanese girls brought to this country some months ago for plastic surgery to repair the scars inflicted by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, have begun their long medical ordeal at New York's Mt. Sinai Hospital. At left is Soyoko Kumatsu, who eats lunch from a tray brought to her by nurse Lona Miller. (1955)

Seminal Image #864


The Lost Weekend
(Billy Wilder; 1945)

September 23, 2008

They Were Collaborators #507


Love

The Eye of Eudora Welty #2


Portrait of a Mature Woman (1935)

Welcome to Show Business! #7


Original Caption:

Hollywood -- Two of Hollywood's most dependable horror experts, Lon Chaney and Bela Lugosi, combine their terrorizing talents in the new "boy meets ghoul" chiller, "The Black Sleep." It marks Lugosi's return to the screen after his recovery from the narcotics habit. Lugosi, who achieved movie immortality as "Dracula," will play a mute in his comeback effort. (1956)

The Art of Cinema #336


Manhattan Melodrama
(W.S. Van Dyke; 1934)

Marilyn in Action #5


Marilyn blows

September 22, 2008

The Golden Age of Publicity #18


Original Caption:

London -- American actor Clint Eastwood finds himself at the mercy of three gun-toting gals upon his arrival at London Airport to promote his latest film. From left to right, the bare-legged banditos are Sandra Marshall, Anita McGregor and Susan Melody. (1967)

Artists in Action #428


Tuesday Weld eats a sundae.

Adventures in American Filmmaking #109


Today's Adventure: Leo McCarey peers.

Collect 'Em All #55


Randolph Scott
No. 40 in a series of 50 from Player's Navy Cut Cigarettes

Randolph Scott was born on January 23rd, 1903, in Orange, Virginia, and comes of an old Virginian family. His father was an engineer and he was destined for the same career, but on leaving college, he served in the Great War, and on demobilization, did not feel inclined to settle down to steady work straight away. While on holiday in California, he was given a job as 'noises off' in a film, and decided up on acting as his future career. After eight months with the Pasadena Community Theatre, he was given a film contract, and made his debut in Sky Bride. His latest talkies are The Last Round-Up and Wagon Wheels.

The Cool Hall of Fame #143
The Heretofore Unmentioned #31


Sarah Vaughan

Ben Shahn's American Life #17


Miner's Wives (1948)

The Art of Jazz #72


. . . a man and his Dream
(Artie Shaw)
(RCA-Victor Records; 1958)

When Legends Gather #455


Joey Adams, Eddie Fisher, Red Buttons, Morey Amsterdam, Gene Baylos, George Raft, Joe E. Lewis, Sam Levenson, Henny Youngman, Sid Caesar, Milton Berle and Jan Murray.

The City: Miami #5


Original Caption:

Ku Klux Klan Initiate at Miami.

Miami -- Winter visitors at Miami, Florida, got a real thrill the night of February 7th when 900 members of the Ku Klux suddenly appeared fully garbed on the golf links of the fashionable Miami Country Club. They had with them 355 initiates who were made members after going thru the regular ceremonies. No one except photographers and clansmen were allowed within two hundred feet of the fiery cross and altar. After the ceremony they all disappeared as suddenly as they had come. This is said to be the first public initiation in Florida and the first since 1872. It is said that clansmen from all over the South attended. Initiatives can be seen before the fiery cross and altar while taking the oath. (1922)

Visionary Film #2


Liebe ist kälter als der Tod
(Love is Colder Than Death)
(Rainer Werner Fassbinder; 1969)

September 21, 2008

Seminal Image #863


La Double vie de Véronique (The Double Life of Veronique)
(Krzysztof Kieslowski; 1991)

Artists in Action #427


David Lynch hears

They Were Collaborators #506


Big Star, in Alex Chilton's living room; 1971.

A Who's Who of the Cold War #8


Anthony Blunt

American Dry Spell #14


Original Caption:

Bermuda -- A woman demonstrates how American tourists hide and smuggle liquor from non-Prohibition lands into the United States past customs. Under her skirt the woman wears a secondary skirt, with pockets for the alcohol. (1930)

Artists in Action #426


James Thurber smokes

Friends and Family #41


Original Caption:

Chicago -- Louis 'Little New York' Campagna and Paul 'The Waiter' Ricco stand in the showup line at police headquarters here. The two, on parole from federal sentence, were locked up and put through regular fingerprint and lineup routine after voluntary surrending to state's attorney for questioning in killing of ex-policeman William Drury. (1950)

Jesters of the Republic #11


Doodles Weaver

September 20, 2008

Motown's Norman Whitfield dead at 68


If all he'd ever done was co-write I Heard It Through the Grapevine (with frequent partner Barrett "Money" Strong), Norman Whitfield would still be remembered as a genius of soul, but he also composed some of my favourite underappreciated early Motown tracks like Marvin Gaye's Pride & Joy, Too Many Fish in the Sea for the Marvelettes and Needle In a Haystack by the Velvelettes before hitting his stride with the Temptations and an enviable streak of singles that included Ain't Too Proud to Beg, (I Know) I'm Losing You and the later, heavier (and socially conscious) sounds of Psychedelic Shack, Cloud Nine and Ball of Confusion. Then there's that song that always seems to get trundled out during Republican administrations, Edwin Starr's War.

Whitfield died on Tuesday after a long struggle with diabetes. Here's the Guardian's obit.

The Cool Hall of Fame #142


Billie Holiday

Old New York #29


Wall Street (1920)

The Art of American Fantasy #19

Signs and Meaning in Cinema #7


Signs: Control
(Anton Corbijn; 2007)

The Art of Cinema #335


Privilege
(Peter Watkins; 1967)

September 19, 2008

Unwanted Image #15


An excised scene from West of Zanzibar
(Tod Browning; 1928)

G is for Gedney #17


Distanced View from Within Barn of Grandfather (1954)

Men of God #12


Francis Cardinal Spellman

When Legends Gather #453


Martha Raye and the Gabor sisters (Magda, Zsa Zsa and Eva)

Tricky: Scenes from a Life #61


Tricky debates (1960)

September 18, 2008

Seminal Image #862


The Fall of the Roman Empire
(Anthony Mann; 1964)

They Were Collaborators #505


Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster

The City: Philadelphia #2


Original Caption:

Socialist Nominee Speaks in Philadelphia

Philadelphia -- Surrounded by thousands of well-wishers, Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for the Presidency, is seen here after speaking in Reyburn Plaza, following a refusal by authorities to allow him to speak in City Hall. Scores of police stood by during the address, but no interference was made (1932)

Sex Education #111


Ann-Margret

When Legends Gather #452


Pat Paulsen and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy

September 17, 2008

Action, Now! #1


Original Caption:

New York -- Racial tensions continue at the City College of New York in the weeks following a protest by Black and Puerto Rican students demanding higher enrollment and changes to the curriculum. Graffiti on a campus wall reads 'Free Huey', a reference to Black Panther leader Huey Newton (1969)

They Were Collaborators #504


John Mayall, John McVie, Hughie Flint and Eric Clapton

Artists in Action #425


Elvis Presley is overwhelmed

An Illustrated History of Vice #8


Original Caption:

Washington -- Marijuana cigarettes and a dropper and needle for stronger drugs are shown here. Addicts usually start with one of the milder drugs, such as marijuana, then go on to morphine, heroin or opium. (1963)

When Legends Gather #452


Bobbie Gentry and Bobby Darin

September 16, 2008

Friends and Family #40


Original Caption:

Scene of Crime.

New York -- A rope with a sign stating 'Crime Scene, Search Area, Stop' is stretched across the intersection of Hester and Mulberry Streets in the Little Italy section of lower Manhattan, blocking off Umberto's Clam House, where reputed mobster Joseph 'Crazy Joe' Gallo was slain early April 7, while celebrating his 43rd birthday with family members and friends. Officials said his slaying might be the first salvo in a new gangland war. Gallo was the third man killed in gangster style in as many days. (1972)

Artists in Action #424


Paul McCartney contemplates

They Were an Item #53


Anna Karina and Jean-Luc Godard

Jesters of the Republic #10


Buddy Hackett

Before and After #147: Paul Robeson

Before


After

September 15, 2008

They Were Collaborators #503


Tony Hancock and Sid James

Sex Education #110


Ann Dvorak (The Woman Across the Bay)

This Week's Weegee #43

Artists in Action #423


Jack Webb catches up on important legislation

The Art of Cinema #334


The Searchers
(John Ford; 1956)

September 14, 2008

Artists In Action #422


Ray Davies strikes a chord.

When Legends Gather #451


William S. Burroughs, Lawrence Durrell, Mary McCarthy, Robert Jungk, Erich Fried and Stephen Spender discuss "The Novel and the Future" at a 1962 writers' conference.

Artists and Animals #12


Dusty Springfield prepares to touch a monkey.

El Cine del Oro #40


La Bandida
(Agustin P. Delgado; 1948)

Great Madmen of the 20th Century #34


Spike Jones

Artists on Artists #2
The Present Day Composer #66

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Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

"His music is so close to my heart. I feel attuned to it. A melencholy, a nostalgia for childhood, for innocence. The attempt to recover life as it used to be when everything is so protected, so untouched, so fresh, what you can never become again. I understand his complexity, I love even his weaknesses, and perhaps some of them are my own."
-- Leonard Bernstein

Before and After #146: Terry Southern

Before
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Friends and Family #39

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Original Caption:

Brooklyn -- Charles 'Charlie the Bug' Workman, named by a New Jersey Grand Jury as the killer of 'Dutch' Schultz is shown at a Brooklyn, New York, police headquarters where, questioned in the line up, he declined to say anything about that dubious distinction. He was later held without bail as a fugitive from justice. New Jersey is trying to extradite him for trial. (1941)

They Were an Item #52

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Alfred Steele and Joan Crawford

Hierophants of Hip Hop #10

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A Tribe Called Quest

September 13, 2008

Visionary Film #1

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The Hard Way
(Vincent Sherman; 1943)

I Like the Christian Life! #2

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God Licks Liquor

Chicago -- The Harbor Light Corps does not always wait for men to come to its door. It goes out into the street to try to make the men see the light. Here, Capt. Crocker leads an outdoor night service and encourages them to kneel in prayer. (1949)

Artists in Action #421

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Vladimir Nabokov inspects a tiny Butterly

Poets are both clean and warm
And most are far above the norm
Whether here or on the roam
Have a poet in every home! #34

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Rudyard Kipling

Aftermath: U.S.A. #2

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Original Caption:

Levittown -- Loaded down with premiums, a happy mother and daughter leave the King Korn Redemption Center (at 2841, Hempstead Turnpike) in Levittown, Long Island, after exchanging their trading stamps for a variety of goods. Stamp savers can walk out of these stores with anything from baseballs to electric broilers. The firm has found that the average family fills one stamps-saver book of 1500 stamps a month. (1957)

September 12, 2008

Welcome to Show Business! #6

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Hollywood -- In a familiar swashbuckling role, Errol Flynn makes his first appearance before Hollywood cameras in several years as he duels with a screen villain. A maiden in distress is naturally the cause of the sword play. Flynn portrays the 15th century poet adventurer Francois Villon in 'The Sword of Villon', which will be shown on NBC-TV's Screen Directors Playhouse, April 4. (1956)

The Heretofore Unmentioned #30

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The Art of Jazz #71

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Showcase
(Philly Joe Jones)
(Riverside Records; 1959)

Aftermath: Japan #2

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Uenohara -- These Japanese youngsters line up behind a barricade and fire away at the badmen. The course of history has done away with the American "Redskin" as the "bad man" and substituted a Red of the Communist tribe for the target of these Japanese cowboys. The outfits are the gift of the Kiwanis Club of Woburn, Mass., which heard of the love for the American West that the Japanese kiddies inherited from movies and G.I.'s. (1953)

When Legends Gather #450

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Charlton Heston and Ramon Novarro

September 11, 2008

Artists in Action #420


Enrico Caruso rests his voice

They Were Collaborators #502


Dan Enright and Jack Barry

Old New York #28


The Charles Schwab mansion (1906)

Men of God #11


Billy James Hargis

Annals of Crime #34


Original Caption:

Denver -- John Gilbert Graham, on trial for murder in the crash of an airliner which killed 44 persons, confers with his attorney, John Gibbons, in court. Eleven more persons were excused from serving on the jury being picked to hear Graham's trial. He is accused of placing a homemade dynamite bomb aboard a United Airlines DC-68 to kill his mother, Mrs. Daisie King, for her insurance. The plane exploded and crashed Nov. 1, 1955, near Longmont, Colorado. (1956)

September 10, 2008

The Art of Pop #24


The Touch of Your Lips
(Nat King Cole)
(Capitol Records; 1961)

Marilyn in Action #4


Marilyn sparks

When Legends Gather #449


Marc Chagall and Golda Meir

The New Yorkers #6


Texas Guinan

The City: Reno #4


Original Caption:

Reno -- Believe it or not, these seedy looking 'Arabs' actually represent the cream of American manhood. They are the seven Mercury Astronauts, gathered for a group photo after completing rugged training at the U.S. Air Force Survival School at Stead Air Force Base in Nevada. Left to right are: Gordon Cooper; Scott Carpenter; John Glenn; Alan Shephard; Virgil Grissom; Walter Schirra; and Donald Slayton. (1962)

September 09, 2008

Sex Education #109


Ava Gardner

Seminal Image #861


Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom
(Norifumi Suzuki; 1973)

Men of the West #29


Rex Allen

Adventures in American Filmmaking #108


Today's Adventure: Gary Cooper, Julie London and Lee J. Cobb relax between takes with Man of the West director Anthony Mann.

Great Moments in Moxie #17


An impressive display greets Moxie drinkers at a trade fair.

The City: Philadelphia #1


Philadelphia -- Merle Africa, the first member of the radical back-to-nature group MOVE, surrenders to police in Philadelphia, after the city and MOVE reached an agreement on ending the blockade of MOVE headquarters. With her is MOVE attorney Oscar Gaskins and Walter Palmer, a member of the city-wide Black Community Coalition. MOVE members in the background watch them leave. (1978)

Tricky: Scenes from a Life #60


Tricky makes like John Barrymore (1958)

Artists in Action #419


Truman Capote poses

They Were an Item #51


Jean Harlow and Paul Bern

When Legends Gather #448


Dick Clark, Anita Bryant and Bobby Rydell

September 08, 2008

Annals of Crime #33


Original Caption:

Skirting the Law

New York -- Narcotics squad detective Edward Egan shows the grass skirt he wore early March 29 to gain access to the apartment of rock 'n' roll singer Jimmy (Baby Face) Lewis, who allegedly was in business peddling narcotics to other entertainers. Egan, along with three other detectives playing harmonicas, rang Lewis' doorbell and asked for an audition. Once inside, they produced a search warrant. The ensuing search uncovered four ounces of heroin, an ounce of cocaine, two pounds of marijuana, and various weapons. Lewis was arrested on charges of possession of narcotics and a concealed weapons law violation (1963)

The Best of Edward Penfield #4


About Paris
(by Richard Harding Davis)
(Harper & Bros.; 1899)

Before and After #145: Tony Blair

Before


After

The Art of Cinema #333


Dark Victory
(Edmund Goulding; 1939)

Great Madmen of the 20th Century #33


Hunter S. Thompson

September 07, 2008

Anita Page Dead at 98


Anita Page, one of the last . . . and always one of the most charming . . . stars of the late Silent and early Sound period, has passed away at the age of 98.

Here is an account from The Washington Post

I Like the Christian Life! #1


Original Caption:

Youths Drinking Milkshakes at No-Alcohol Nightclub

Decatur -- The Decatur Christian Youth Council, composed of church leaders, is sponsoring a liquorless tavern and night club, The Anchor Inn, with floor shows and a dance orchestra, to combat the drinking of alcoholic liquors and frequenting of regular taverns by Christian youths. Photo shows a group sipping milk shakes in Anchor Inn, which was a night resort during prohibition days. (1938)

Seminal Image #860


I Married a Communist
(Robert Stevenson; 1949)

Broadcasters #47


Phil Donahue

They Were Collaborators #501


Francis Albert Sinatra and William James Basie

An Illustrated History of American Labor #9


Original Caption:

Detroit -- This display of Red Literature including the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, a target pellet gun and Yugoslavian passport issued to James Petroff, address unknown, were alleged to have been found in a car Petroff was driving while said by police to have been trailing in the Strikebound Square D Electrical Equipment Company. Four other men riding with Petroff were also arrested and held for questioning as the strike entered its 100th day. The strikers were members of the Independent Electrical Workers Union, which was ousted from the CIO five years prior on charges of Communist domination. (1954)

September 06, 2008

Artists in Action #418


Sam Cooke grabs a snapshot.

Jesters of the Republic #9


Stan Freberg

A Is For Arbus #49


Beaufort County, South Carolina family (June, 1968)

Seminal Image #859


The Bravados
(Henry King; 1958)

Artists and Animals #11


Warner Oland shows off his schnauzer Raggedy Anne's new litter.

The Eye of Eudora Welty #1


Crowd on a boxcar watching a fire
(Jackson, Mississippi; 1937)

Men of the West #28


Jack Elam

The Art of Cinema #332


The Dark Mirror
(Robert Siodmak; 1946)

Newspaper(wo)men #31
Great Con Artists of the 20th Century #19


Janet Cooke

(no relation to Stephen Cooke . . . I think)

Artists in Action #417


Dennis Hopper measures the public response

September 05, 2008

The Golden Age of Prurience #51


Love Doctor
(by Florence Stonebreaker)
(Stanley Library; 1958)

Vaudevillians #5


Bert Williams

The Heretofore Unmentioned #29


Morris Levy

Artists in Action #416


Original Caption:

Folk singer questioned.

New York -- Banjo-playing folk singer Pete Seeger, 36, appears at the HUAC hearing August 18th in New York, as the committee continued its investigation into the entertainment industry. Seeger said the committee had no right to pry into his personal affairs. he said he loves his country "very dearly" and insisted he has never done anything of a conspiratorial nature. Otherwise he declined to answer questions. Here Seeger shows what he is best at, playing banjo and heartily singing. (1955)

The Art of the Stage #4


The Last Stroke: A Story of Cuba's Fight for Freedom
(Jacob Litt; 1896)

September 04, 2008

Ben Shahn's American Life #16


W.C.T.U. Parade (1933)

Annals of Crime #32


Original Caption:

Vallejo -- A high school teacher in Salinas, Donald G. Harden, and his wife cracked a code of a man threatening mass murder, a code which the Navy and FBI experts have failed to break in a week of effort. Ciphers were contained in a letter sent to three newspapers in which the author claimed to have committed three recent lovers lane murders. The code, a portion which is shown with Haden's version, reads: "I like killing people because it is so much fun it is more fun than killing wild game in the forest . . . when I die I will be reborn in paradise and all I have killed will become my slaves. I will not give my name because you will try to slow down or stop my collecting of slaves." (1969)

Seminal Image #858


Hard, Fast and Beautiful
(Ida Lupino; 1951)

The Cool Hall of Fame #141


Pharoah Sanders

The Present Day Composer #65


George M. Cohan (1878-1942)

September 03, 2008

Marilyn in Action #3


Marilyn points

They Were Collaborators #500


Wilbur Hulick and F. Chase Taylor (aka Stoopnagle and Budd)

The City: Reno #3


Original Caption:

Reno -- In Reno to obtain a divorce from David A. Milton of New York, is Mrs. Abby Rockefeller Milton, as she leaves the lobby of the riverside Hotel on her way to Lake Tahoe where she will establish residence (1943)

The Art of Jazz #70


Jazz Impressions of the U.S.A.
(The Dave Brubeck Quartet)
(Columbia Records; 1956)

Men of God #10


Rex Humbard

September 02, 2008

Broadcasters #46
They Were Collaborators #499


Chet Huntley and David Brinkley

The City: Miami #4


Original Caption:

Miami -- At his ease, and with the usual cigar in his mouth, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill places a few deft daubs on his canvas as he paints the scene from the Surf Club in Miami Beach. England's great war leader is making good his plan to do a great deal of painting. He will probably see President Truman when the latter goes on his Florida vacation (1946)

When Legends Gather #447


Frank Capra and Alfred Hitchcock

The Heretofore Unmentioned #28


Inga Arvad

Artists in Action #415


Sam Peckinpah is wheeled down a hallway

September 01, 2008

The Art of Labor #14

This Week's Weegee #42

The Art of War #41

Women of the Stage #11
Welcome to Show Business! #5


Original caption:

Remember Me?

Hollywood -- While the kids watch a cute little girl called Shirley Jean in old 'Our Gang' movies on TV, their parents can watch the same girl doing bumps and grinds at a Hollywood burlesque theater. In her dressing room at the New Follies, Shirley Jean, now grown up and billed as "Gilda and Her Crowning Glory," points to a picture of herself as one of the 'Our Gang' kids. (1955)

The Art of Jazz #69


Live! Vol. 1
(The Jaki Byard Quartet)
(Prestige Records; 1965)

Fun at Bohemian Grove #32


A Bohemian dives (1932)