St. Clair McKelway

St. Clair McKelway profiles the dedicated imposter Stanley Clifford Weyman.

The writer is telephoned by U.S. President Sarah Perkins, called Mom, early one January morning to tell him to come to the White House from NYC, where he …

The writer's father, a Presbyterian clergyman, quit preaching to devote his life to pushing anto-child-labor legislation, in Washington, D.C. …

(A Handy, All-Purpose Column On The Dance For Amateurs Of That Art Who Find It Unfeasible To Lift Their Sunday "Times" Or "Herald Tribune" From Vestibule …

A REPORTER AT LARGE. In the form of imaginary testimony before two officers of the Central Intelligence Agency, the writer tells of "The Edinburgh Caper," …

The son of a Presbyterian clergyman in Washington, the writer found that during his youth his family's house was constantly filled with visiting …

The writer, who is 32, is driving home - to Tenafly. His wife, Lois, is sleeping in the back seat of the car. She is expecting their first child. He works …

A 1953 story by St. Clair McKelway about two strangers drawn into an enraged ex-husband’s terrifying plot.

Jerome Roberts confessed to killing his wife. The truth was different. St. Clair McKelway explores the case.

On a sleepless night, the writer, who comes from a long line of Presbyterian clergymen, sketched his image of the Presbyterian boss. The man had a beard …

The writer's many ancestors, which he illustrates by dots that form a pyramid, were all Presbyteruans and mostly in the clergy. He has longed to get …

ANNALS OF CRIME about counterfeiters. The most sought-after counterfeiter there has ever been in this country was one called OldEight Eighty by the Secret …

ANNALS OF CRIME about Edward Mueller, or Old Eight-Eighty, tells about other counterfeiters. Edward John Wellman, an Estonian, was a counterfeiter of …

ANNALS OF CRIME about counterfeit money and counterfeiters There was a shortage of both genuine and counterfeit money in early Colonial times, whereas …

PROFILE of Paul Hodges, Chief Petty Officer of a destroyer.

PROFILE of Dr. Maurice William, a New York dentist, who changed the course of Chinese history through his book "The Social Interpretation of History."

PROFILE of Donald Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board. Mr. Nelson turned down a publicity campaign pattiotically conceived by Steve Hannagan, the …

REPORTER AT LARGE Harry Bridges tells what fun he had giving the FBI agents, who were supposed to shadow him, the run-around. Two of them occupied an …

PROFILE of Walter Winchell. In a prospectus for Life, circulated before the new magazine was put on the newsstands, it was stated that Life would "expose …

REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Trinity Church on a Sunday in August. Tells about the service, the summer congregation. It was Dr. Fleming who had …

Part 2 of St. Clair McKelway and A.J. Liebling’s Profile of Father Divine. Converts to the Harlem preacher’s Peace Movement were promised a better life—with a few stipulations.

Part 1 of St. Clair McKelway and A.J. Liebling’s Profile of Father Divine, the founder of the the Peace Mission movement, who provided food during the Great Depression—a ministry that netted a miraculous amount of money.

Profile of Fire Marshall Thomas P. Brophy. Charles Carmen, who went to jain in 1927 for a long term, was a firebug known as the Professor among the …

Profile of Thomas Patrick Brophy. As soon as an important case of arson has been discovered, the N.Y. Board of Fire Underwriters, which represents all the …

PROFILE of Harry Grossman, a process server.

PROFILE of Harry Grossman, a process server.

REPORTER AT LARGE. Old records show that once there were forty extensive cemeteries south of 14th Street. Today there are only nine on the whole island, …

When Mrs. Carlos Del Rosso abandoned her twin girl babies on the morning of October 9th in 1933, leaving one in a subway lavoratory and the other in the …

Composite PROFIIE of Robert J. Johnson, insurance agent.