Robert Grey Reynolds Jr: 502 books

Corvette is the most coveted and longest enduring American sports car. The General Motors car, introduced in 1953, has a worldwide following and has appeared internationally in countless auto shows. My e-book looks at some of the ingenious designs such as the XP-700. This futuristic car, conceived...

Two highly publicized sports scandals developed in New York City in the years 1945-1946. Occurring almost two years apart one of the incidents involved pro sports and the other was amateur related. At Brooklyn College five prominent players were offered money to throw a game against Akron University...

Evie Greene was a Victorian actress whose specialty was comic opera roles. She ascended to the heights of the English theater in the early years of the 20th century. She made frequent trips to New York City, particularly in 1904 and 1908, years when she debuted in Havana and other productions. Her...

My e-book looks at thefts of Rembrandt paintings and etchings during the 20th century from 1921-1983. The Dutch artist was a master of using light and shadows and his paintings are coveted perhaps more than any other artist. The art works I have chronicled were stolen in Hamburg, Cologne, Boston,...

Albert Anastasia headed up Murder Inc. a feared Mafia group that controlled the Brooklyn dockyards, segments of the fashion industry, and was notorious for administering gangland justice. On the morning of October 25, 1957 Anastasia was reclining in a barber's chair at the exclusive Park Sheraton...

Nick Civella led a Kansas City Mafia that was very influential in Teamsters Union issues, especially the matter of the lucrative Central States Pension Fund. Control of the fund was greatly coveted by the Chicago mob as well. Civella used loans from the fund to finance his entry into the Tropicana...

The Toronto Maple Leafs were an unsuccessful team for the majority of the 1950s except for the 1951 Stanley Cup Champs who beat the Montreal Canadiens in the finals. The team found it difficult to regain the winning form that had made the teams of the late 1940s so successful. Yet there were veterans...

The wooden scaffolding surrounding the upper floors of the new skyscraper hotel, Sherry-Netherland, began burning on the night of April 12, 1927. It's uncertain how the magnificent blaze ignited. However one fire marshal believed a salamander heater left behind by plaster workers might have been...

Ann Yarrow was an honor student at Guilford College, where she graduated in 1953. A devoutly religious woman, she attended Society of Friends' services in Queens, the home of her mother and stepfather. A master's degree candidate at New York University she studied sociology and psychology...

Marthe Regnier was a French actress and dress designer who came to prominence in her roles in Manon (1910) and Mayerling (1936). She also dated men of prominence and power like Baron de Rothschild and Murellini, the Brazilian ambassador to France. She was a woman who was very much ahead of her time...

In August 1943 Norwegian-American CBS correspondent Eric Sevareid was aboard a C-46 transport plane that crashed en route to Chunking, China. The army command transport came down in the Burmese jungle near the Chinese border. The aircraft was carrying State Department dignitaries as well as British...

Paco Godia entered a works Maserati in the 1951 Spanish Grand Prix, thus becoming the first Formula One driver in his country's history. After this he drove intemittently throughout the 1950s until he quit in 1958. Paco Godia became a patron of the arts in his own country, establishing the Fundacion Francisco Godia in Barcelona.