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February 20, 1943

The New Yorker cover for February 20, 1943

Featured Pick

profiles

Cotton-Dress Girl

Janet Flanner

Janet Flanner’s classic 1943 Profile of the candid-as-glass Hollywood star Bette Davis.

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fiction

Some Nights When Nothing Happens Are The Best Nights In This Place

John McNulty

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How To Plunge Into a Lobster Reverie

George S. Hellman