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January 23, 1965

The New Yorker cover for January 23, 1965

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A Sense of Where You Are

John McPhee

John McPhee’s 1965 Profile of the Princeton basketball star Bill Bradley, whose achievements broke barriers in the Ivy League, where athletes of the highest calibre usually don’t show up.