[“Brinks Holdup.” Photographs by Ralph Morse and Yale Joel. January 1, 1950 (?). From the Life Photo Archive. Click any photograph for a larger mask.]
None of these photographs appear in the January 30, 1950 Life article about the Boston Brinks robbery. The robbery took place on January 17, so the date for the photographs must be a mistake. There is no indication that these are the masks the robbers wore. But they’re good masks. Here’s a post from 2021 with six more.
The last time Elaine and I committed to Halloween (2015!) we had six kids show up in three-and-a-half hours — pretty sad. On this Halloween there are more kids in our neighborhood than before, so we’re once again going to give out candy, or try to. We are hoping to dispose of the contents of two large bags of Reese's Cups tonight. Good stuff.
Turn up, kids! Or I’ll be the one who has to eat the leftovers.
Happy Halloween.
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Just read your Perry Mason and John Keats post of some years ago. Nice, mighty nice. Saw the fragment on a scrap of morning television today.I wish Perry had included "though of the muses born." And Della...earlier, she quotes Job 1:7. Quite a literary and religious Halloween here in Tennessee...by chance, of course.
It's going to be about 60° tonight here in Minnesota for the first time since the year 2000, so we're thinking there may be more than our usual handful of trick-or-treaters.
It’s supposed to be in the high 50s here. They have no excuse not to show up. : )
@KATE: I just realized your comment was here, not on the Mason post itself. MeTV is one outlet that runs that episode for Halloween, so it might not be a coincidence.
My favorite literary Mason episode is “The Case of the Bogus Books,” about a fake first edition of Tristram Shandy. It turns out that Mason is a Laurence Sterne fan, at least for that episode.
And now I see that I mentioned the Sterne episode in a comment on the Keats post. Oh well. At least I’m consistent.
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