In Episode 35 of Out Of My Mind, host Jay Douglas tells a story about Mary Shanley who proved Irving Berlin wrong. Shanley got over a thousand of men with a gun…and even a few women…as one of the first New York City police women and only the fourth to rise to the rank of detective first-grade.
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Check out the blog story at The Out Of My Mind Blog. And be sure to read the Mind Doodle at the end of the post for a little-known story about Mary Shanley’s police department paycheck.
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