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
Featured Picks
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Snyder-Gray case. Talk on capital punishment and its relation to their case.
Reporter at Large about Tammany Hall aid New York City politics as the Southerners see it. Southerners' opinion of Al Smith.
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 …
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 …
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 …
A trip through a broadcasting studio, describing the interior in detail. The reporter gives his impressions as he watches programs being switched from one …
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 …
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 …
Profile of Dr. Alfred Adler.
Dorothy Parker imagines a comic, catty, boozy date in a speakeasy, in this humor story from 1928.
PROFILE of Frank G. Shattuck, owner of Schrafft's stores.
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 …
Complete story on bookmakers, their organization, betting, etc. at Belmont Park.
Profile of the Glendons, coaches of the Navy and Columbia crews.
PROFILE of William Frank Kenney, contractor and real-estate operator, who donated seventy-thousand dollars to Al Smith's Presidential campaign. When …
Profile of Helena Rubenstein.
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 …
Profile of Dr. James H. Kimball, city meteorologist, whose duties include forecasting the weather over the Atlantic ocean.
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.
PROFILE of Senator Royal S. Copeland, made Health Commissioner of New York in 1918. Worked with influenza epidemic. Orthodox Tammany man.
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.
Profile of Paul Manship.
An anthropologist solves the difficulties men have in finding suitable mates by introducing polygyny and polyandry. The theory is worked out in detail. …
Profile of Henri Cochet, the tennis star.
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…
Profile of Paul Robeson.
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 …
Profile of Sam Zolotow, editor of the magazine and former office boy of the Times.
Dorothy Parker’s review of A. A. Milne’s children’s classic.
Russel Crouse on Virginia Claflin Woodhull, the first woman to run for President, and her historic 1872 campaign.
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.
Conversation between two theatre organists. They never use arrangements because they stifle imagination.
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 …
Based on the old game of beaver. R ules for a game. Points are given for spotting suspects in tht Rothstein murder case.
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…
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 …