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Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1935 issues.

52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: Morris Markey (17)

Most featured section: A Reporter at Large

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Hazards of a Trade.
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · January 5

A Reporter at Large about the murder of Max Silverstein, brother os Sigmund Silverstein, a partner in the firm of Kalmus & Silverstein, diamond merchants. …

FOR THE DEFENCE.
Milton MacKaye · Profiles · January 12

PROFILE of Edward J. Reilly, Bruno Hautpmann's lawyer. Reilly has defended all except three of Brooklyn's lady murderers in the past twenty years. …

JEU DE PAUME
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · January 19

REPORTER AT LARGE about the tennis matches held at the Madison Square Garden, between Tilden and Vines against Ftoefen and Lott. Mentions other players, …

The Lonely Fate of Typhoid Mary
Stanley Walker · Profiles · January 26

When Mary Mallon cooked, people became ill and sometimes died. Health officials came after her repeatedly, and repeatedly she tried to escape, Stanley Walker writes.

Dots and Dashes
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · February 2

A Reporter at Large about the Radio Corporation of America' s receiving station, located at Riverhead, L.I. Messages are received from all Europe and …

W.C. Fields
Alva Johnston · Profiles · February 9
LEGITIMATE NONCHALANCE
Alva Johnston · Profiles · February 16
Song and Sentiment
Marcia Clark Davenport · Profiles · February 23

Profile of Lotte Lehmann.

POST TIME
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · March 2

REPORTER AT LARGE about horse racing; betting; how bets are placed, etc.

HAUPTMANN AND CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
Edmund Pearson · A Reporter at Large · March 9

REPORTER AT LARGE dealing with cases of circumstantial evidence. One case was that of Professor Webster, in 1850. The Professor, an elderly and respectable…

Rooftree: New Style
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · March 16

Reporter at Large about the prefabricated houses, sold by the American Houses, Incl, and exhibited at the Grand Central Palace. Holden, McLaughlin & …

"RURAL NEW YORKER"
Russell Lord · Profiles · March 23
"RURAL NEW YORKER"
Russell Lord · Profiles · March 30
SKYROCKETS
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · April 6

REPORTER AT LARGE about experiments with skyrockets conducted on Staten Island by the American Rocket Society. Mr. G. Edward Pendray is president of the …

REMNANT OF ATTICA
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · April 13

REPORTER AT LARGE about the establishment of Mr. George Micalakopoulos, located a few blocks away from the gloomy stone piers which mark the Manhattan end …

Broadway Chiseller.
Meyer Berger · Profiles · April 20

Composite PROFILE of a typical Broadway chiseller tells how he works the different rackets. A chiseller can live in N. Y. and live pretty well, without …

MASS ENTERTAINMENT
Alva Johnston · Profiles · April 27

PROFILE of Billy Rose, showman and songwriter. He has written about twenty hits, Barney Google," "You've Got to See Mama Every Night Or You Can't …

"Her Majesty the Queen."
Janet Flanner · Profiles · May 4
The Putnam Division
Edmund Wilson · A Reporter at Large · May 11

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Putnam Division. History of the railroad. Built in 1871, it was to run over pretty much its present route: From High Bridge to …

Farm and Ringside.
Earl Sparling · Profiles · May 18

PROFILE of Bill Brown, Commissioner of the N. Y. State Athletic Commission, and his health farm on Garrison-on-the-Hudson. Before going into the …

Do or Diaphragm
S. N. Behrman · Profiles · May 25

Profile of Frances Robinson Duff. The foremost dramatic coach in America, stresses the importance of diapragm control. Among Miss Duff's pupils are the…

But Thinking Makes It So
St. Clair McKelway · A Reporter at Large · June 1
Two Waiters and a Chef.
Margaret Case Harriman · Profiles · June 8

Profile of the two headwaiters, Ernest Cerutti, and Gene Cavallero, who have owned the Colony Restaurant since 1922. A third proprietor and partner, Alfred…

Only the Dead Know Brooklyn
Thomas Wolfe · Other · June 15

Thomas Wolfe’s classic short story, written in Brooklynese, about the eternal struggle to navigate the city’s train lines, and to get to know the borough.

DO WE EXECUTE INNOCENT PEOPLE
Edmund Pearson · A Reporter at Large · June 22

REPORTER AT LARGE: Study of errors in criminal justice Cites a number of cases where the conviced have been thought innocent but after a careful …

BEGGARS ON HORSEBACK
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · June 29

REPORTER AT LARGE about sports developed during the depression. The most striking change has occurred in that highly specialized game - polo. Tells about …

MIGHTY ROCK
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · July 6

REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Black, Starr & Frost, Gorham, to have a look at the Jonker diamond. Mr. Krehbiel, the general manager, showed a copy of …

Meunchen Im Kleinin
Chester L. Morrison · A Reporter at Large · July 13

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Yorkville district, a Nazi stronghold. The rise of the Nazi in Yorkville was slow, always at least one jump behind the …

Young England
Morrison C. Fitch · Fiction · July 20

An American artist speaks to a young English boy, aged about 8, whose hobby is collecting American slang expressions.

BRIEF MEETING.
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · July 27

REPORTER AT LARGE about a brief encounter with a junkman named O'Shaughnessy. He owns a creaking old mare and a tattered old wagon. He stopped at a …

"Reporter at Large"
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · August 3

Paramount Publix went into receivership on January 26, 1933. Not long before this, its issued securities had a market value of $200,000,000. Lawyers …

YANKEE HORSE TRADER
Arthur Bartlett · Profiles · August 10

PROFILE of Walter Cox, who trains horses for the Grand Circuit races at Goshen. In addition to running his own stable, Cox has charge of renting to other …

Embassy
Jay Franklin Carter · Fiction · August 17

The American Embassy in Rome receives a message from the United States saying that the Secretary of State, who is planning to visit several European …

PLACE AND LEAVE.
St. Clair McKelway · Profiles · August 24

PROFILE of Harry Grossman, a process server.

PLACE AND LEAVE WITH~II
St. Clair McKelway · Profiles · August 31

PROFILE of Harry Grossman, a process server.

THE ANONYMOUS MAN.
Alva Johnston · Profiles · September 7

PROFILE of Carr V. Van Anda, of the N. Y. Times. The motto of the copy-reader in the sporting department at one time was "If you see a good line strike it …

"The Mahatma" ARTIST
Milton MacKaye · Profiles · September 14
Harbor-Hopper
Robert M. Coates · Profiles · September 21

PROFILE of Hilary Turner, ferry boat captain. In 1904 a 10 year franchise expired, by which the S.I. Rapid Transit Railway Co., a subsidiary of the …

Trip to the Stars
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · September 28

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Hayden Planetarium.

LADY IN CREPE.
Meyer Berger · Profiles · October 5

PROFILE of Anna Lonergan who loves to tell about dock wars & the trigger work of her two husbands, Wild Bill Lovett & Matty Martin, and that of her brother…

ROOMS, WITH OR WITHOUT SOCIAL LIFE.
Katharine Day · A Reporter at Large · October 12

REPORTER AT LARGE. The word "hotel" is in the discard now; the new name is "club." They have hostesses, and are quite elaborately run, with entertainments,…

MUSIC WITH MEALS.
Gilbert Seldes · Profiles · October 19

PROFILE of Emil Coleman. When Coleman arrived in this country in 1913, an agent sent him to Bustanoby's for a tryout. When he got there he saw that the…

WAY FOR THE MOUNTED.
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · October 26

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Mounted Police. The horses are purchased for intelligence and amenability to dicipline. About five culls for every one that …

VOICE
Margaret Case Harriman · Profiles · November 2

PROFILE of Marion Sayle Taylor, "The Voice of Experience." The Voice has four sponsors: "Haley's CTC (a citro carbonate which sets out to restore the …

JIMMY COMES HOME.
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · November 9

REPORTER AT LARGE about the homecoming of ex-Mayor Walker: the interviews, the number of reporters and mechanical equipment, cameras, picture and radio …

WAITING.
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · November 16

REPORTER AT LARGE about the murderer of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., Bruno Richard Hauptmann, now in the death house of the N. J. State Prison. Tells about …

THE GHOSTING BUSINESS
Alva Johnston · Profiles · November 23

PROFILE OF Christy Walsh, of the Christy Walsh Syndicate, of ghostwriters. Walsh Was himself, 16 years ago, the ghostwriter for Eddie Rickenbacker. Since …

SHIPS IN THE NIGHT
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · November 30

REPORTER AT LARGE about activities at the Newark Airport; tells about the workings of the mechanical landing beam, or blind flying, as explained by pilot …

LILIES OF THE FIELD
Morris Markey · A Reporter at Large · December 7

REPORTER AT LARGE rporting that the work on the Queens Boulevard improvement project is going forward steadily, though with speed which could be called no …

Reporter At Large." "Fiasco of the Church-Hotels."
Hugh O'Connor · A Reporter at Large · December 14

Tells about the financial standing of the nine church-hotel in the city. The Manhattan Towers which used to be the Manhattan Congregational Church, Bway. …

About New Yorkers
Katharine Brush · Fiction · December 21

They serve dry Martinis and the most elaborate canapes ever contrived. They like to dress. They like to go where they can see the same five hundred people …

Is There a Republican Party?
Frank Sullivan · Fiction · December 28

Writing at the height of F.D.R.’s Presidency, in 1935, Frank Sullivan imagines a world where, like Santa Claus, Republicans might not exist.

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