Vaudevillians #6
W.C. Fields
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Vaudevillians
September 30, 2008
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)
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Friends and Family
September 29, 2008
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)
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Annals of Crime
Artists in Action #431
Andy Warhol studies his 1965 psychodrama Beauty #2
for the series:
Artists in Action
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)
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Nuns Gone Wild
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)
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The City: Reno
Fun at Bohemian Grove #33
Bohemians struggle with a redwood (1895)
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Fun at Bohemian Grove
When Legends Gather #457
Walter Winchell, Carole Lombard and Clark Gable
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When Legends Gather
September 27, 2008
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)
for the series:
Action Now
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)
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I Like the Christian Life
Tricky: Scenes from a Life #62
Tricky resists hypnosis (1969)
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Tricky: Scenes from a Life
September 26, 2008
The Art of the Panel: EC #1
from Death's Double-Cross
(by Wallace Wood)
(Crime SuspenStories, #1; Oct-Nov, 1950)
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Art of the Panel: EC
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)
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An Illustrated History of American Labor
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
for the series:
Poets are both clean and warm
September 25, 2008
The Civil War: Dramatis Personae #5
Gen. George B. McClellan
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The Civil War: Dramatis Personae
The Art of Cinema #337
Une femme est une femme
(A Woman is a Woman)
(Jean-Luc Godard; 1961)
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Art of Cinema
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)
for the series:
Annals of Crime
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)
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Aftermath: Japan
September 23, 2008
The Eye of Eudora Welty #2
Portrait of a Mature Woman (1935)
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The Eye of Eudora Welty
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)
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Welcome to Show Business
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)
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The Golden Age of Publicity
Adventures in American Filmmaking #109
Today's Adventure: Leo McCarey peers.
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Adventures in American Filmmaking
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.
for the series:
Collect 'em All
The Cool Hall of Fame #143
The Heretofore Unmentioned #31
Sarah Vaughan
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Heretofore Unmentioned,
The Cool Hall of Fame
The Art of Jazz #72
. . . a man and his Dream
(Artie Shaw)
(RCA-Victor Records; 1958)
for the series:
Art of Jazz
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.
for the series:
When Legends Gather
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)
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The City: Miami
Visionary Film #2
Liebe ist kälter als der Tod
(Love is Colder Than Death)
(Rainer Werner Fassbinder; 1969)
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Visionary Film
September 21, 2008
Seminal Image #863
La Double vie de Véronique (The Double Life of Veronique)
(Krzysztof Kieslowski; 1991)
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Seminal Images
They Were Collaborators #506
Big Star, in Alex Chilton's living room; 1971.
for the series:
They Were Collaborators
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)
for the series:
American Dry Spell
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)
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Friends and Family
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.
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Obits
Signs and Meaning in Cinema #7
Signs: Control
(Anton Corbijn; 2007)
for the series:
Signs and Meaning in Cinema
September 19, 2008
Unwanted Image #15
An excised scene from West of Zanzibar
(Tod Browning; 1928)
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Unwanted Images
G is for Gedney #17
Distanced View from Within Barn of Grandfather (1954)
for the series:
G is for Gedney
When Legends Gather #453
Martha Raye and the Gabor sisters (Magda, Zsa Zsa and Eva)
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When Legends Gather
September 18, 2008
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)
for the series:
The City: Philadelphia
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)
for the series:
Action Now
They Were Collaborators #504
John Mayall, John McVie, Hughie Flint and Eric Clapton
for the series:
They Were Collaborators
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)
for the series:
An Illustrated History of Vice
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)
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Friends and Family
September 15, 2008
Artists in Action #423
Jack Webb catches up on important legislation
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Artists in Action
September 14, 2008
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.
for the series:
When Legends Gather
Artists and Animals #12
Dusty Springfield prepares to touch a monkey.
for the series:
Artists and Animals
Artists on Artists #2
The Present Day Composer #66
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
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Artists on Artists,
The Present Day Composer
Friends and Family #39
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)
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Friends and Family
September 13, 2008
I Like the Christian Life! #2
Original Caption:
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)
for the series:
I Like the Christian Life
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
Rudyard Kipling
for the series:
Poets are both clean and warm
Aftermath: U.S.A. #2
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)
for the series:
Aftermath: U.S.A.
September 12, 2008
Welcome to Show Business! #6
Original Caption:
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)
for the series:
Welcome to Show Business
Aftermath: Japan #2
Original Caption:
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)
for the series:
Aftermath: Japan
September 11, 2008
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)
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Annals of Crime
September 10, 2008
The Art of Pop #24
The Touch of Your Lips
(Nat King Cole)
(Capitol Records; 1961)
for the series:
Art of Pop
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)
for the series:
The City: Reno
September 09, 2008
Seminal Image #861
Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom
(Norifumi Suzuki; 1973)
for the series:
Seminal Images
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.
for the series:
Adventures in American Filmmaking
Great Moments in Moxie #17
An impressive display greets Moxie drinkers at a trade fair.
for the series:
Great Moments in Moxie
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)
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The City: Philadelphia
Tricky: Scenes from a Life #60
Tricky makes like John Barrymore (1958)
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Tricky: Scenes from a Life
When Legends Gather #448
Dick Clark, Anita Bryant and Bobby Rydell
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When Legends Gather
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)
for the series:
Annals of Crime
The Best of Edward Penfield #4
About Paris
(by Richard Harding Davis)
(Harper & Bros.; 1899)
for the series:
The Best of Edward Penfield
Great Madmen of the 20th Century #33
Hunter S. Thompson
for the series:
Great Madmen of the 20th Century
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
for the series:
Obits
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)
for the series:
I Like the Christian Life
They Were Collaborators #501
Francis Albert Sinatra and William James Basie
for the series:
They Were Collaborators
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)
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An Illustrated History of American Labor
September 06, 2008
A Is For Arbus #49
Beaufort County, South Carolina family (June, 1968)
for the series:
A is for Arbus
Artists and Animals #11
Warner Oland shows off his schnauzer Raggedy Anne's new litter.
for the series:
Artists and Animals
The Eye of Eudora Welty #1
Crowd on a boxcar watching a fire
(Jackson, Mississippi; 1937)
for the series:
The Eye of Eudora Welty
Newspaper(wo)men #31
Great Con Artists of the 20th Century #19
Janet Cooke
(no relation to Stephen Cooke . . . I think)
for the series:
Great Con Artists of the 20th Century,
Newspapermen
September 05, 2008
The Golden Age of Prurience #51
Love Doctor
(by Florence Stonebreaker)
(Stanley Library; 1958)
for the series:
The Golden Age of Prurience
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)
for the series:
Artists in Action
The Art of the Stage #4
The Last Stroke: A Story of Cuba's Fight for Freedom
(Jacob Litt; 1896)
for the series:
Art of the Stage
September 04, 2008
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)
for the series:
Annals of Crime
September 03, 2008
They Were Collaborators #500
Wilbur Hulick and F. Chase Taylor (aka Stoopnagle and Budd)
for the series:
They Were Collaborators
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)
for the series:
The City: Reno
The Art of Jazz #70
Jazz Impressions of the U.S.A.
(The Dave Brubeck Quartet)
(Columbia Records; 1956)
for the series:
Art of Jazz
September 02, 2008
Broadcasters #46
They Were Collaborators #499
Chet Huntley and David Brinkley
for the series:
Broadcasters,
They Were Collaborators
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)
for the series:
The City: Miami
September 01, 2008
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)
for the series:
Welcome to Show Business,
Women of the Stage
The Art of Jazz #69
Live! Vol. 1
(The Jaki Byard Quartet)
(Prestige Records; 1965)
for the series:
Art of Jazz
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