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Best New Yorker Articles of 1928

Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1928 issues.

52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: Morris Markey (9)

Most featured section: Profiles

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Father Bill
Henry F. Pringle · Profiles · January 7
Autocrat of the card Table
Helena Huntington Smith · Profiles · January 14
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT,
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · January 21

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Snyder-Gray case. Talk on capital punishment and its relation to their case.

"Dixie and Al"
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · January 28

Reporter at Large about Tammany Hall aid New York City politics as the Southerners see it. Southerners' opinion of Al Smith.

Romance, Incorporated
Margaret K. Leech · Profiles · February 4
A Name is Made
Elizabeth Armstrong · Profiles · February 11
Grown in Garden City
Foster Ware · Profiles · February 18
Genius About Town
Helena M. Smith · Profiles · February 25
Model T. . .1: Tintype
Niven Busch, Jr. · Profiles · March 3
Model T. . .II--The Peacemaker
Niven Busch, Jr. · Profiles · March 10
NEW YORK INTERIOR: THE STORE
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · March 17

EPORTER AT LARGE about the personnel of a large department store and their lives within the store. Every morning they come streaming in from every corner …

IN THE HARBOR
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · March 24

REPORTER AT LARGE about a trip down the bay on tugboat Dalzellea. Tells of bringing S. S. Dominican to Brooklyn dock. Bringing British steamer Hypatia out …

NEW YORK INTERIORS: THE FLOP HOUSE
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · March 31

REPORTER AT LARGE. A flop house is 25 cents a night, for men. The doorway was sandwiched almost unnoticeably between a narrow-faced store and the relic of …

“Artist of the People”
Sulamith Ish-Kishor · Profiles · April 7
"REPORTER AT LARGE"
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · April 14

A trip through a broadcasting studio, describing the interior in detail. The reporter gives his impressions as he watches programs being switched from one …

New York Interiors: The Dance Halls
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · April 21

The reporter visits a dance hall and talks to one of the girls. Most of them are shop-girls in the daytime and do this three nights a week. They get three …

Down the Street.
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · April 28

Reporter at Large about the N.Y. Stock Exchange. Number 18 Broad Street has been the most important address in town for a number of weeks now. Bootblacks …

"Viennese Visitor"
Lola Jean Simpson · Profiles · May 5

Profile of Dr. Alfred Adler.

Just a Little One
Dorothy Parker · Shouts & Murmurs · May 12

Dorothy Parker imagines a comic, catty, boozy date in a speakeasy, in this humor story from 1928.

Without Benefit of Tin Foil
Oliver H. P. Garrett · Profiles · May 19

PROFILE of Frank G. Shattuck, owner of Schrafft's stores.

FROM MADRID TO THE MIRROR
John K. Winkler · Profiles · May 26

PROFILE of Alexander Pollock Moore, former ambassador to Spain, and owner of the Daily Mirror. Appointed ambassador in 1923 by Harding whom he helped in …

A Scientific Santa Claus--I
John K. Winkler · Profiles · June 2
Odds and Evens
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · June 9

Complete story on bookmakers, their organization, betting, etc. at Belmont Park.

"Old Dick and Young Dick"
Robert F. Kelly · Profiles · June 16

Profile of the Glendons, coaches of the Navy and Columbia crews.

“I'D GIVE MY SHIRT FOR AL”
Malcolm Ross · Profiles · June 23

PROFILE of William Frank Kenney, contractor and real-estate operator, who donated seventy-thousand dollars to Al Smith's Presidential campaign. When …

"Beauty in Jars and Vials"
Jo Swerling · Profiles · June 30

Profile of Helena Rubenstein.

Dante and--
Ring Lardner · Profiles · July 7
Came the Movietone
Robert Benchley · The Talk of the Town · July 14

Long Talk story about the uproar in Hollywood now that the Talkies have come in. All the stars are studying voice. Bonanza for the voice teachers. Even …

Master of Ceremonies
James Thurber · Profiles · July 21
"Forecast to the fliers"
Foster Ware · Profiles · July 28

Profile of Dr. James H. Kimball, city meteorologist, whose duties include forecasting the weather over the Atlantic ocean.

Croesus in Politics
Homer J. Dodge · Profiles · August 4
First and last appearance in fiction of a character named Bailey
Donald Stewart · Fiction · August 11

Fiction. Men around a fireplace in a London Club tell tales of bravery. One old man tells how he got lost in a New York Subway.

Master Hinter
Alva Johnston · Profiles · August 18

PROFILE of Senator Royal S. Copeland, made Health Commissioner of New York in 1918. Worked with influenza epidemic. Orthodox Tammany man.

Gangs à la Mode
Alva Johnston · A Reporter at Large · August 25

Alva Johnston’s 1928 report on the gangster killing of Little Augie, the differences between New York gangs and Chicago gangs in Prohibition-era America, and the rise of Al Capone.

"Compleat Sculptor"
Cameron Rogers · Profiles · September 1

Profile of Paul Manship.

An Anthropologist looks at marriage
Pliny Earle Goddard · Fiction · September 8

An anthropologist solves the difficulties men have in finding suitable mates by introducing polygyny and polyandry. The theory is worked out in detail. …

"Lucky Cochet"
John R. Tunis · Profiles · September 15

Profile of Henri Cochet, the tennis star.

"De Medici in Merion"
A. H. Shaw · Profiles · September 22

Profile of Dr. Albert C. Barnes who discovered the formula for and manufactures Argyrol. Was a millionaire before he was thirty. Tells about his collection…

"King of Harlem"
Mildred Gilman · Profiles · September 29

Profile of Paul Robeson.

THE ADVENTURE OF THE BEHAVIORIST
Kenneth Macgowan · Profiles · October 6

PROFILE of James B. Watson, A. M., Ph.D. L.L.D., ex-Professor of Experimental & Comparative Psychology at Johns Hopkins, author of "Behavior: An …

"Office-boy of Destiny"
Alexander Woollcott · Profiles · October 13

Profile of Sam Zolotow, editor of the magazine and former office boy of the Times.

Far from Well
Dorothy Parker · Reading and Writing · October 20

Dorothy Parker’s review of A. A. Milne’s children’s classic.

Victoria Woodhull’s Campaign
Russel Crouse · That Was New York · October 27

Russel Crouse on Virginia Claflin Woodhull, the first woman to run for President, and her historic 1872 campaign.

Camera Shy
Terry Ramsaye · Profiles · November 3
Mae West, the Queen of New York
Thyra Samter Winslow · Profiles · November 10

The writer and star of “Sex” and “Diamond Lil” is greedy for the spotlight, optimistic, eager for success, frank, amusing, calm, cold, and warmhearted, Thyra Samter Winslow wrote, in 1928.

Console conversation
John Forbes · Fiction · November 17

Conversation between two theatre organists. They never use arrangements because they stifle imagination.

Gentleman from Vienna
Helena Huntington Smith · Profiles · November 24
“Portrait of a Man”
Alexander Woollcott · Profiles · December 1
"Cash and Carry"
Alva Johnston · Profiles · December 8

Profile of C.C. Pyle, who invented the bunion derby and lursd Red Grange and Suzanne Lenglen into professionalism. He promoted his first sporting event at …

Arnold
Bruce Gould · Fiction · December 15

Based on the old game of beaver. R ules for a game. Points are given for spotting suspects in tht Rothstein murder case.

Ambassadors of the Early Cutter
Oliver H. P. Garrett · A Reporter at Large · December 22

Tells about the office of the ship news reporters, which is located on the second floor of the Barge office, their duties and how they go about getting the…

Tea at Mrs. Armsby's
James Thurber · Fiction · December 29

Mrs. Monroe had had several cocktails before she arrived at Mrs. Armsby's tea, and she kept making odd statements that her husband had to try to cover …

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