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Zula, an 18-year-old Texas girl is lying in the spring sun talking to her brother and watching two copper heads come to life. She is in her last year in a …
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PROFILE of Nick Kenny, the poet laurate of the N.Y. Mirror. A minnesinger named Harry Schlacht, had for sixteen years created patriotic essays and poems …
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The story of the murder of 46-year-old Ozma Beserk who worked in a Long Island fish market. Only her head was found. After 4 years of detective work the …
Wolcott Gibbs reviews Tennessee Williams’ play “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Louis - Conn fight. Physical description of the contestants; past performance record; and their performance at this particular …
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PROFILE of Kelcey Allen, drama critic of Women's Wear Daily, he is the dean of daily reviewers, and, as a humorist, he has probably been credited with …
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Wolcott Gibbs writes about the New Yorker office during wartime, a week before Thanksgiving, in 1943. “There is, in fact, so much to be thankful for.”
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PROFILE of Ralph Ingersoll, editor of PM. His leave-of-absence technique has got to be so basic a part of Ingersoll's labor policy that it picked up a …
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Comment on how people in N. Y. felt during the first days of war. There was some indignation, too; some things we were ashamed of: an heiress anxious to …
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Profile Lucius Beebe.
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Wolcott Gibbs on Henry Luce, the founder of Time, Inc.
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Satire on a man who spends his whole life looking for errors in other people's work. He makes a career of it. He died at the height of his career after…
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The peepies, it seems, are on the bum. Sixth Avenue at this writing is shrill with the keening of the penny arcade proprietors who have just concluded the …