Robert Reynolds: 504 books

My research has uncovered nude photography of university student models in California who posed for hardly anything in return for free photos of themselves in clothes. Another item that I came across was a 13-year study conducted by academics at Columbia University in New York City. Women at Harvard,...

Orson Welles Sunday evening broadcast of October 30, 1938 sparked a nationwide panic. Mercury Theater scriptwriters adapted the War of the Worlds novel written by H.G. Wells. Listeners who tuned in heard about Martians landing in Grovers Mill, New Jersey. It petrified them that the aliens had already...

College women posing nude was a controversial topic for many years. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in 1937, a coed was dismissed for posing for a drawing class. The college traditionally obtained their models from professionals in Chicago and Milwaukee. The young woman in question was both...

A July 1932 U.S. Government investigative report of the Al Capone syndicate identified Hymie Levine as a collector and lieutenant of Jack Greasy Thumb Guzik. Hymie was multifaceted in what he did. A used parts garage that he owned in Chicago doubled as a business where police who received protection...

Xerox Company was exceptional during the hard economic times that accompanied the Great Depression. After losing a small amount in 1929 the business began to expand its profits and workforce. Whereas many companies were either laying off workers or trimming their hours, Xerox was working their employees...

Richard Kauffman was a noteworthy star in baseball, football, and basketball at Susquehanna University, in the early 20th Century. He also coached the teams on which he played. My E-Book looks at his life as an athlete, as well as his ancestry. I have used ancestry records to detail much about Kauffman's...

Fred Wacker was a Formula 1 driver from the Chicago area who drove for Gordini among other marques. He became President of the Chicago Chapter of the Sports Car Club of America. Fred stressed safety issues, especially crowd control and the safety of sports car drivers. Wacker married a singer named...

Varina Howell Davis was the granddaughter of Richard Howell, the third governor of New Jersey. Her father, William Burr Howell, came to Natchez, Mississippi where Varina was raised in the Antebellum South. William Burr Howell's bankruptcy during his daughter's youth affected her throughout...

My E-Book looks at George Washington Keefe from the perspective of a player and family member. He was the son of a diabled Pennsylvania Union Civil War soldier. Charles Keefe was a cabinetmaker who drew a pension after being wounded as a reservist in combat with the Pennsylvania infantry. His son,...

Dutch Schultz made the big time of racketeers when he entered the business of speakeasies. From a respectable Bronx family Schultz served time on Roosevelt Island for a minor offense that he committed in 1919. When he was paroled he got into speakeasies, partnering with James Noe after a brief stint...

Morris "Moe" Kleinman was a bootlegger in Cleveland who switched into gambling rackets at the end of Prohibition. Kleinman was associated with Louis Rothkopf, Moe Dalitz, Samuel Tucker and other Cleveland mobsters of the 1930s and later. My e-book looks at Kleinman's criminal career. particularly...

Bradley University was among the best college basketball teams in the United States entering the 1949-1950 basketball season. Some observers and pundits believed they were the finest. The Braves were led by their 5'8" point guard Gene Melchiorre. The star player and two of his teammates were...

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...

Sonny Liston began to rise rapidly among the ranks of professional boxers beginning in the early months of 1958. This was a fighter who had turned professional in 1953 following a stint as a Gold Gloves boxer in St. Louis. During a 21 month period from 1956-1958 he hardly fought at all however. Why...