Robert Grey Reynolds Jr: 502 books

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...

Sandro Botticelli and Simonetta Vespucci depend upon one another for their fame in many respects. The Genoan beauty who came to Florence as a teenager was the subject of many of Botticelli's paintings, including his masterpiece, The Birth of Venus. Had there been no Simonetta Botticelli might have...

Len Dawson was a Pro Bowl quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs in the 1960s and 1970s. He led the American Football League team when it won the World Championship of pro football in 1970. A family man, he resided with his wife and two children in a luxurious home in suburban Kansas City. He was...

The Campisi crime family of New Jersey was a quickly ascending organization in the early 1970s. There were eight different Campisis, all of them blood related. The murder of Samuel Carbone was one of a series of gangland murders involving the Bruno and Campisi family members. It is likely that Carbone's...

Frank Funzi Tieri became the Boss of Bosses among New York's five crime families following the death of Carlo Gambino in 1976. Tieri was involved in gambling and loan sharking to a large extent. He was saved from serving a prison term of nearly a decade when he died of colon cancer in 1981. Funzi...

Josephine Baker was the epitome of the American emigre who found her niche in Paris during the years after the First World War. She arrived in France in 1925 following a stint as a bit player in Shuffle Along, the first all-Negro Broadway play. She performed her trademark black bottom dance to the...

Candy Jones became a successful model and later owned her own modeling agency. She published books and articles on self improvement, beauty and other subjects. She also hosted a number of radio shows. From Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania she was raised by her mother and maternal grandmother, who was an...

Lynne Baggett's name is obscure to all but the most avid Hollywood trivia buffs. She is most well known for her marriage to "On The Waterfront" producer, Sam Spiegel. Yet her life is important because of the questions it raises. Baggett was about thirty-five years old when she committed suicide...

Marilyn's period in New York City from 1954-1957 is interesting because it was a time of change and growth for the actress. She formed her own company, Marilyn Monroe Productions, to produce television, photographs, and films, for herself and other talented performers. Monroe stayed at the Waldorf...

Mobster Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno ascended quickly in the world of organized crime. As a Genovese family member he was involved in the policy racket, gambling and bookmaking. Based in East Harlem he was a close associate of such mobsters as Joe Adonis, Frankie Carbo, "Charley Bullets" Albero and...

In March 2018 I discovered that a Facebook friend of mine was a call girl at an exclusive agency in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Our talks began with a simple compliment that I made about one of her Facebook posts. She was wearing skinny jeans with holes that young women are very fond of. I sent her...

Charles Manson has been studied from many perspectives by authors, especially those that have looked closely at the mind control he has used to manipulate his followers. I have read with avid interest a number of these works over the years. My book begins with his birth certificate, which was difficult...