Edge of Doom Framed or Unframed:Unframed Code named Operation Overlord

Code named Operation Overlord

accepted defeat at the Republican convention in Kansas City in a close race for delegates

when one of our staff photographers took this photo

Times photographer Chester Higgins Jr

Despite its identity crisis

Edge of Doom Framed or Unframed:Unframed Code named Operation OverlordEven jadded New Yorkers might have done a double take on this rainy night in Times Square with a towering "Edge of Doom" sign nearby. The glowing message didn't refer to impending disaster in the hardscrabble neighborhood, but rather a new black and white film noir directed by Mark Robson and starring Dana Andrews, playing at the Astor Theater in August 1950. Just up the block on the left is Times Tower, whose electronic news ticker or "zipper"