THE MEDIUM
Delusion can be overcome by holding steadfastly to one philosophy: everything here is nothing more than God’s motion picture.
– Paramahansa Yogananda
I think it would be fun to run a newspaper.
– Charles Foster Kane
Newspapers
Th’ newspaper does ivrything f’r us. It runs th’ polis foorce an’ th’ banks, commands th’ milishy, controls th’ ligislachure, baptizes th’ young, marries th’ foolish, comforts th’ afflicted, afflicts th’ comfortable, buries th’ dead an’ roasts thim aftherward.”
Magazines
Pulp magazines got their moniker from the wood-pulp paper they were printed on. The paper yellows quickly and becomes very brittle, but the stories they hold are indelible.
Movies
Poverty, organized crime and urban violence drove the plots of many Hollywood films. Unfortunately, the movies are a far cry from the sordid reality behind the gunmen, killers, arsonists and other idiots on Flattery’s watch.
Books
The crimes committed and foiled provided plenty of fodder for crime writers. Flattery’s footwork influenced generations of crime, legal and political authors, from Damon Runyon to Richard Condon.
The Clue of the Chain Letter
There was no direct evidence, but the detectives knew how to make the guilty conscience of a murderer work for justice.
read moreAlarm Out for Saboteurs
Three men in a late model sedan are believed to be responsible for cutting six cables on telephone poles in Queens. Several of the sabotaged cables are in the vicinity of war plants.
read moreBurglars Do “Neat Job”
Even The Police Give Praise for Jewel Thieves’ Technique
read moreNew York’s Riddle of the Floating Corpse
Stabbed 15 times in the chest and back, a man’s body in Jamaica Bay, N.Y., offered police a baffling mystery. But a tiny slip of paper led them at last to the killer shown here in custody.
read moreThugs Bind Woman, Raid Queens Home
3 Force Way Into Flat and Ransack It After Demanding Husband’s ‘Papers’ to get very little.
read moreBarrel Murder
The body of a comely woman, was found crammed into a barrel on the rocky shore line of Queens, about 500 feet east of Hell Gate Bridge.
read moreWidow Questioned in Son’s Poisoning
Mother played trumpet in a vaudeville troupe of seven sisters.
read moreArsenic Poisoning in Death of Boy
Brooklyn Prosecutor seeks light on illness after body of teenage boy yields arsenic.
read more9 Held as Robbers After Hotel Raid
All Plead Not Guilty to Hold-Up of Ex-District Attorney in Office in Jamaica, Queens. IN PRISON AT TIME, 2 SAY Arrests Made When Detectives Take Over Hostelry, Even Manning Elevators.
read moreFormer Prosecutor Bound and Robbed
Charles Froessel, Special Counsel to the Justice Department, was bound and robbed in his Queens office. The thieves were captured after detectives raided the Manhattan hotel in which they were staying.
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