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REPORTER AT LARGE about the Public Library's information desk. The Librarians, who are prepared in this work by a special college course giving them …
Meyer Berger
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Profile of the West Forty-Seventh Street station house. The precinct was commanded by Capt. Killilea from 1870 to 1892. He was a giant with fists like …
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PROFILE of West Forty-seventh Street Police Station, opened in 1862. Tells about the first mass arrest reported in the blotter. On the 3rd of January, …
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Pete Bostwick, gentleman rider and polo player hit upon the notion of offering polo exhibitions to all comers at fifty cents a head about four years ago, …
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PROFILE of Sam Schultz, who makes a living by fishing coins out of subway grates. He usually works 12 hours a day, from five at night until daybreak. Tells…
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Meyer Berger’s 1938 look at the technology, history, and culture of eavesdropping.
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Profile of Louis Rubin, marriage broker. Rubin has been in the business for 25 years, his ledgers show 7,168 weddings He won't take less than $100 …
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In the aftermath of the famous, conspiracy-laden Lindbergh trial, a small group fighting for Richard Bruno Hauptmann claims to know the truth, Meyer Berger reported, in 1938.
a reporter at large ·
Reporter at Large about hashish or marijuana, a visit to a hashish den in Harlem. There are hundreds of these joints or tea pads, in Harlem. Some of them …
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PROFILE of Anna Lonergan who loves to tell about dock wars & the trigger work of her two husbands, Wild Bill Lovett & Matty Martin, and that of her brother…
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Composite PROFILE of a typical Broadway chiseller tells how he works the different rackets. A chiseller can live in N. Y. and live pretty well, without …