Robert Grey Reynolds
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Angelo Caruso was a criminal who was involved with numerous rackets such as prostitution, kidnapping and shaking down and coercion of merchants. Caruso was handpicked as underboss by Salvatore Maranzano who succeeded Giuseppe Masseria in 1931 as Mafia boss of bosses. Caruso lived in Manhattan, the Bronx and Harlem at different times. My e-book discusses Angelo's multifaceted career from his marriage to a woman who was used as a tool in his white slavery...
42) Connie Kreski
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Connie Kreski was among the most visible of the Playboy Playmates of the 1960s. She was Playmate of the Month of January 1968 and was selected Playmate of the Year. Soon she entered movies and television, playing small roles in a variety of popular 1970s comedy series and crime dramas. Among these were Ironside with Raymond Burr and Rowan and Martin's Laugh In. Her most remembered film role is Mercy Humppe in an Anthony Newley produced movie that...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker are both legendary Hall of Fame baseball players. The men were icons in the early 20th Century sports world where baseball was truly the national pastime and the biggest sport of them all in America. In the summer and fall of 1926 a former major league pitcher, Hubert Dutch Leonard, came forward with letters that had been sent to him by Ty Cobb, his former manager. Cobb and Leonard had a tempestuous relationship that culminated...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Masanori Murakami was the first native born Japanese pitcher in Major League Baseball. His story is one that pitted a Major League team against the best team in western Japan, the Nankai Hawks. Nankai and the San Francisco Giants vied for the services of Murakami between 1964-1966. At stake was a talented left-handed pitcher and $10,000 that San Francisco paid him for his services. Nankai demanded that Masanori be sent back to Japan following the...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
James Wilkinson has been maligned throughout American History as a schemer and an unscrupulous individual. My e-book looks at many incidents in his military career that earned him the reputation as a blackhearted treacherous figure. There are so many instances where he ingratiated himself with superiors to benefit his ascent in the Continental Army. Among these is the Conway Cabal, a plot that Wilkinson joined with Horatio Gates to backstab George...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
I believe that the successful plot to murder President John F. Kennedy took shape in New Orleans during the summer of 1963. It was then that W. Guy Banister ran a detective office where malcontents, right wingers and perhaps left wing radicals also frequented. Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged Presidential assassin, was certainly one of the individuals who worked out of Banister's Camp Street address. Oswald was either a confirmed left winger or was...
47) Sasquatch
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Sasquatch is a native term for a huge humanoid creature that has been sighted, primarily in the northwest United States and southwest Canada since the 18th century. Caucasian records of Sasquatch date from 1811 when a trapper in the northwest sighted huge footprints and recorded them in his diary. Interest in the mysterious creature heightened with a film taken by Roger Patterson near Bluff Lake in northern California in 1967. Yet this was not the...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Greta Nissen was a lovely Norwegian beauty with fair skin and enchanting blue eyes. Her mother started her out early in dancing and ballet. When the girl was just six years of age she entered the Royal Opera of Copenhagen where she acquired additional training. In 1924 Greta came to the United States for the first time. She played the fairy princess in a stage production of Beggar On Horseback. During her stint in the play Greta was discovered by...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Two alternative treatments for measles epidemics were used beginning in 1929. Amidopyrine was first employed by a Chicago physician who later became known for a breakthrough treatment of meningococcal meningitis. He began using amidopyrine by 1929. Gamma globulin was made available for use to the public beginning in 1944 when a surplus was realized by the U.S. military. My e-book recounts the turbulent and desperate era of measles epidemics in New...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
The Toronto Maple Leafs were an unsuccessful team for the majority of the 1950s except for the 1951 Stanley Cup Champs who beat the Montreal Canadiens in the finals. The team found it difficult to regain the winning form that had made the teams of the late 1940s so successful. Yet there were veterans like Sid Smith who combined with heralded rookie defenceman Tim Horton, who became a regular by 1952. Horton's injury in the spring of 1955 was a great...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Crime began to escalate during the Great Depression. The third decade of the 20th century witnessed an increase in crimes more than the decades that preceded it. On Easter Weekend 1937 three persons were found murdered in an East Side New York City apartment. One of them happened to be a lovely young model. Soon after her macabre death it was discovered that she had posed nude for a photographer two months earlier. Multiple black and white photos...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Angela Dorian is a famous Playboy Playmate who used her magazine modeling to become a successful actress in motion pictures and on television. She appeared in numerous mid 1960s television shows and debuted in movies in Chuka, a 1967 western that starred Rod Taylor. Her best known film is When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth, a sci fi/creature feature in which she played a cave woman. Dinosaurs was a perfect vehicle for the actress to display her curvaceous...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
A midair collision occurred near National Airport in Washington, DC on November 1, 1949. A P38 World War II plane and a commercial airliner came together when a Bolivian pilot in the P38 either did not hear air traffic controllers, or failed to respond to their commands. The crash left 53 persons dead, all of them aboard the Eastern DC4. Ironically, the P38 pilot survived the crash. He was injured severely but nevertheless was the sole survivor in...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Palmistry may have been practiced as early as 3000 B.C. Regardless of the exact date of origin it has been a tool for understanding life throughout the ages of mankind. Gypsies used it and were sometimes regarded as notorious from their practice of palm reading. In the early 20th Century the West End of New York was filled with swindlers who earned fortunes through false palm readings of rich clients. However, along with people who duped their subjects,...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Jacob Gurrah Shapiro was a Mafia enforcer in the fashion fur industry. He worked as a lieutenant to the notorious Louis Lepke Buchalter who was himself executed at Ossining Prison (Sing Sing) in 1944. Shapiro and Buchalter were a tandem that single handedly dominated an industry in which shopkeepers and manufacturers were intimidated into paying tribute for Mafia control of striking workers. Over a period of time Shapiro and Buchalter collected hundreds...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
The coral snake is a burrowing and secretive snake. For this reason alone there are sparse encounters between humans and this reptile. However, especially with the rise of camping and outdoor activities, humans have firsthand contact with them. My e-book tells about people who have come across contact with the snakes while on scouting trips and even one Florida resident who had the misfortune of picking one up while he was mowing the lawn. Coral snakes...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Vincent the Chin Gigante rose to the top of the Genovese crime syndicate, becoming its Boss in 1986. Early in his life he was a heavyweight boxer who fought in various venues around New York City. In 1957 he and Vito Genovese were arrested by narcotics agents of the Treasury Department on drug related charges. Convicted and imprisoned their cases were appealed as high as the Suprem Court of the United States. Gigante began his ascent in the Genovese...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Existentialism is a European philosophical movement that was fostered by Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard in the early 19th Century. French writer Jean-Paul Sartre revived existentialism in 1943 with the publication of Being and Nothingness. Sartre and Kierkegaard are examples of the extremes of existentialist thought. Kierkegaard advocated a God-centered existentialism in his works and Sartre represents the atheistic/agnostic sphere of existentialist...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Clotilde Marchand, the wife of Henri Marchand and an accomplished painter in her own right was murdered inside her Buffalo, New York home in 1930. A Seneca Indian woman confessed to killing her in a brutal manner, using a hammer to hit her over the head. The investigation into the murder revealed that the Native woman's friend had persuaded her to murder Clotilde. Nancy Bowen, the murderer, and Lila Jimmerson had used the messages they received from...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Miroslawa was a citizen and student of Poland during the rule of a military dictatorship. 1984 was the year after my graduation from college at UNC-Chapel Hill. An avid shortwave radio listener, I wrote to a Bulgarian periodical that transmitted a message during Radio Sofia's English language broadcast. The Bulgarian state radio summoned listeners to mail their addresses so that penpals might be found for readers of Bulgaria Heute (Bulgaria Today)....