A Reporter at Large about the murder of Max Silverstein, brother os Sigmund Silverstein, a partner in the firm of Kalmus & Silverstein, diamond merchants. …
Best New Yorker Articles of 1935
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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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. …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the tennis matches held at the Madison Square Garden, between Tilden and Vines against Ftoefen and Lott. Mentions other players, …
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.
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 …
Profile of Lotte Lehmann.
REPORTER AT LARGE about horse racing; betting; how bets are placed, etc.
REPORTER AT LARGE dealing with cases of circumstantial evidence. One case was that of Professor Webster, in 1850. The Professor, an elderly and respectable…
Reporter at Large about the prefabricated houses, sold by the American Houses, Incl, and exhibited at the Grand Central Palace. Holden, McLaughlin & …
REPORTER AT LARGE about experiments with skyrockets conducted on Staten Island by the American Rocket Society. Mr. G. Edward Pendray is president of the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Profile of Frances Robinson Duff. The foremost dramatic coach in America, stresses the importance of diapragm control. Among Miss Duff's pupils are the…
Profile of the two headwaiters, Ernest Cerutti, and Gene Cavallero, who have owned the Colony Restaurant since 1922. A third proprietor and partner, Alfred…
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.
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 …
REPORTER AT LARGE about sports developed during the depression. The most striking change has occurred in that highly specialized game - polo. Tells about …
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 …
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 …
An American artist speaks to a young English boy, aged about 8, whose hobby is collecting American slang expressions.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
PROFILE of Harry Grossman, a process server.
PROFILE of Harry Grossman, a process server.
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 …
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 …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Hayden Planetarium.
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…
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,…
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…
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Mounted Police. The horses are purchased for intelligence and amenability to dicipline. About five culls for every one that …
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 …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the homecoming of ex-Mayor Walker: the interviews, the number of reporters and mechanical equipment, cameras, picture and radio …
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 …
PROFILE OF Christy Walsh, of the Christy Walsh Syndicate, of ghostwriters. Walsh Was himself, 16 years ago, the ghostwriter for Eddie Rickenbacker. Since …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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.