Best New Yorker Articles of 1934
Explore 51 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1934 issues.
51 picks · 52 issues · Top author: Morris Markey (15)
Most featured section: Profiles
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Reporter at Large about a Board of Estimate meeting. Mr. LaGuardia leaving the meeting met the delegation of unemployed women. Unhpaiily their leader had …
PROFILE of Sinclair Lewis. When Mr. Lewis had written the novel "Our Mr. Wrenn," he took it to Frederick A. Stokes Company. Mr. Stokes told him he was not …
REPORTER AT LARGE. Visit to the operating room of one of the larger hospitals. Describes the operation.
PROFILE OF Edward Ringwood Hewitt, regarded for two or three decades as America's leading crack dry-fly, wet-fly, mouse, grasshopper, and bare-hands …
Those little green automobiles with two cops in them, moving quietly through the streets whereever you happen to be are radio patrol cars. There are four …
REPORTER AT LARGE about tenements on Cherry Street. The Tenement Department was closing up some houses, helping people to move out and telling the …
PROFILE of George M. Cohan. He has been Mrs. Cohan's familiar companion for the last twenty years. Reardon is a former policeman who likes to read but …
Tells about a meeting of the First Century Christian Fellowship, otherwise known as the Oxford Group, the movement led by Frank Buchnan, and formerly …
REPORTER AT LARGE. During prohibition Jack & Charlie paid less graft than any other speakeasy in town, because no agent or detective ever got a teaspoonful…
REPORTER AT LARGE about the annual stockholders meeting of the United States Steel Company. The meeting was held at the home office, an unpretentious bank …
REPORTER AT LARGE about John Powers Agency, a clearing house for professional models - male and female. John Powers Book is not for sale anywhere, it put …
Author describes his first experience of making a radio broadcast. First of all he got off at the sixteenth floor instead of the seventeenth. Not wanting …
Randall, Robert Richard, bachelor landlubber son of a pirate father, asked his friend Alexander Hamilton, how he might best dispose of estate. The latter …
PROFILE of Othmar Hermann Ammann, Chief Engineer of the Port of N. Y. Authority, designer and builder of the George Washington Bridge, at 179th Street, the…
Profile of Max Adalbert Baer.
Report on the Baer-Carnera fight. You couldn't help feeling some tinge of pity for Carnera Nothing very sentimental, of course, but rather academic, as…
Composite PROFIIE of Robert J. Johnson, insurance agent.
When Mrs. Carlos Del Rosso abandoned her twin girl babies on the morning of October 9th in 1933, leaving one in a subway lavoratory and the other in the …
Mort Henderson, known as the Masked Marvel, mentioned in PROFILE of Jack Curley. Short personality sketch.
REPORTER AT LARGE. Old records show that once there were forty extensive cemeteries south of 14th Street. Today there are only nine on the whole island, …
PROFILE of General Hugh S. Johnson. Tells about the creation of the N. R. A. Mentiones members of the General's staff many of them members of the …
A girl answers a "lonely hearts" advertisement from a magazine and when the young man in question telephones her she puts him off because it does not seem …
REPORTER AT LARGE about dog races held at Long Branch, N. J. Tells about betting, etc.
PROFILE of Carlo Tresca. Tresca's great romance was with another fighter, Elizabeth Curley Flynn - in childhood, "the girl orator," of the IWW; in …
REPORTED AT LARGE about Steve, a bartender, who was picked up by the New Jersey police. He was suspected of dope smuggling and put through the third …
Janet Flanner, James Thurber, and Harold Ross recount an average day with the author Gertrude Stein and her partner Alice B. Toklas, from morning routines to country drives.
Reporter at Large about the Midtown Bus Terminal. The drivers are given a long apprenticeship before they are allowed to take human life out on the crowded…
PROFILE of Werner Janssen, conductor and composer.
Profile of Edwin Goodman, executive of Bergdorf Goodman. "Understanding American psychology very well, he has gone in for royalty and nobility even on the …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the newly finished Triboro Bridge tells about the cost, how it was financed, construction, parkways and approaches to the bridge.
Reporter at Large about the Horse Show, at the Madison Square Garden.
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Fred F. French project, the Knickerbocker Village. History of the neighborhood, at one time very fashionable. Lord & …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Spanish region of Harlem from Eight Avenue to Lexington Avenue, and from 110th Street to 117th Street. Tells about the people, …
Profile of Edward N. Jackson, veteran photographer of the Daily News.
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Flemington, N. J., which be the scene of the Haumpmann trial. Tells about preparations for the big event. Description of…
A realization of the true horror of war is achieved by putting a skeleton enclosed in glass at the site of the tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Reporter at Large: Night scene at the West Street Markets. Every night, except Saturday nights before holidays, enough fresh food to supply Manhattan for …