Meyer Berger

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 …

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 …

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, …

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, …

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…

Meyer Berger’s 1938 look at the technology, history, and culture of eavesdropping.

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 …

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.

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 …

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…

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 …