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That's a pretty snazzy little house, too. Right out of "Better Homes and Gardens."
With two fireplaces.
That's a pretty snazzy little house, too. Right out of "Better Homes and Gardens."
...A payroll courier and a policeman were shot to death today and two other persons were wounded in a midday payroll robbery in Manhattan that ended in the death of one of the robbers and the arrest of the other. Fifty-six-year-old Albert Klausman of Woodhaven picked up a $649.99 payroll at the Irving Trust Company branch in the Empire State Building, and boarded an elevator to carry it to the offices of Kemp & Beatley, linen manufacturing firm of which he is office manager, where he was shot dead by a fellow passenger. That passenger and his accomplice then forced the elevator operator at gunpoint to take them to the ground floor, where they fled into East 34th Street and then ran into B. Altman's department store as the elevator man sounded an alarm. They exited Altman's on the 35th Street side and attempted to commandeer a taxicab. When the driver, Isidore Edere of the Bronx, refused their commands, they separated and fled on foot, one of them pursued by Patrolman Edward Maher of Traffic C, who had responded to the alarm. A shot from Maher wounded the bandit, but when he caught up with the man and attempted to arrest him, the robber shot him twice and the patrolman fell dead. Leonard Weissberg, taxicab driver of 1577 Carroll Street in Brooklyn, tried to come to Maher's aid, but the gunman shot him in the neck before he was finally subdued. The other robber fled into Woolworth's, where he exchanged shots with Patrolman Thomas Edwards before surrendering. The payroll was found dropped in the street by Patrolman Edward Ready. The other wounded person was a guard at the Central Hanover Bank who was standing at the intersection of 34th and 5th when he was hit in the shoulder by a stray bullet....
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(Over in "Dick Tracy," Krome says "Exploding cereal! Why didn't I think of that!")...
In general, office romances should be avoided and sex at work is skeezy (one very large bank I worked for in the '90s had to send out a memo indirectly, but effectively, telling its employees to stop having sex in the stairwells), but there are always reasons for exceptions, over to you Lana.
Lana is a sweet virginal chaste pure as driven snow angel.
And that sorry dumb ass ba***rd schmuck Harold doesn't deserve her.
Well, there's always Shadow...
My comment above about Lana was a bit tongue-in-cheek as I didn't literally mean she should pop into the next stairwell and have at it with Harold, but I did mean that being too-good, too-proper, too-by-the-book can be its own problem.
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(Powdered carrots???)......
... Also frustrating, he says, is the habit many women have of cutting the labels out of cheap clothing and sewing in labels of more expensive stores. This trend has caused confusion for investigators, observes the Captain, on more than one case....
Jack and Joy's house reminds me of Mr Blanding's dream house.That's a pretty snazzy little house, too. Right out of "Better Homes and Gardens."
Labels are really meant for women to take notice. I read in a vintage magazine that some coat labels are sewn in upside down on purpose. This way when the coat is flung over a chair the label is much easier to read.View attachment 301051
Seriously, this is a thing? Who exactly sees the label besides the woman wearing her clothes? If she is taking them off for some action with a man, I can assure you he is not paying one second of attention to the labels in her clothing. So who is she putting in all this effort for to impress?
Agreed, at least this one lives up to the hype.
The Wilmers of the world make life so much more exhausting for the rest of us.
Amazing that there is a functioning telegraph business in the middle of a war-torn country.