REPORTER AT LARGE about Major Bowes "Amateur Hour." Ten thousand men and women, boys and girls try to get before the microphone on a Sunday night. Tells …
Best New Yorker Articles of 1936
Explore 50 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1936 issues.
50 picks · 51 issues · Top author: Jack Alexander (6)
Most featured section: Profiles
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PROFILE of Colonel Tobin, whose military hero is the late Colonel Dan Appleton, whom he frankly imitates. Appleton, a member of the publishing family, was …
Profile of Thomas Patrick Brophy. As soon as an important case of arson has been discovered, the N.Y. Board of Fire Underwriters, which represents all the …
Profile of Fire Marshall Thomas P. Brophy. Charles Carmen, who went to jain in 1927 for a long term, was a firebug known as the Professor among the …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the red tape, and delay in receiving relief, citing the case of Billy, a juggler.
Fanatic, celibate, vegetarian. Janet Flanner’s 1936 Profile of the man who brought the Nazis to power.
Young Hitler was rejected from art school and disliked in the army, Janet Flanner wrote, in 1936. A fateful pamphlet circulated just after the First World War inspired him in another direction.
His brain is instinctive, not logical, Janet Flanner wrote, in 1936. His name, in Germany, has been substituted for that of God.
REPORTER AT LARGE. Visit to the Oneida Community Mansion, in Kenwood, built over sixty-five years ago by American communists as a communal dwelling, …
REPORTER AT LARGE to the Oneida Community Mansion, Kenwood, N.Y., built over 65 years ago by American Communists as a communal dwelling, founded by John …
Reporter at Large. An American coming to Russia from England discovers that in certain fundamental respects he has more in common with the Russians than …
Reporter at large about having spent six weeks in a contagious hospital in Odessa. Description of the hospital, the staff, care, etc.
In a piece published during the Great Depression, Dorothy Day writes about giving food to an out-of-work man with a wooden leg.
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Jemimakins, followers of Jemima Wilkinson. When Jemima Wilkinson was 17 years old, in 1776, she caught a plague spread by the …
ONWARD & UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about the early Model T Fords and their tricks. Only one page in the current catalogue of Sears, Roebuck is devoted to …
Part two of the Lily Dale Spiritualist Colony. A seance.
PROFILE of George Biddle of Philadelphia, artist, now working on a mural in the new Department of Justice Building at Washington. Fifteen other painters …
Part 1 of St. Clair McKelway and A.J. Liebling’s Profile of Father Divine, the founder of the the Peace Mission movement, who provided food during the Great Depression—a ministry that netted a miraculous amount of money.
Part 2 of St. Clair McKelway and A.J. Liebling’s Profile of Father Divine. Converts to the Harlem preacher’s Peace Movement were promised a better life—with a few stipulations.
Part 3 of St. Clair McKelway and A.J. Liebling’s Profile of Father Divine. Through his ministry in Harlem, Father Divine preached peace and equality—all while acquiring blocks of brownstones, two newspapers, restaurants, and a fleet of limousines.
PROFILE of Leland Hayward, agent for Ina Claire, Miriam Hopkins, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Helen Hays, and many other theatrical people.
Profile of Max Schling.
PROFILE of Jimmy Hines, Destrict Tammany Leader, tells about the duties and activities of a District Leader. Stories of Hines's connection with …
PROFILE of Jimmy Hines, Destrict Tammany Leader, tells about the duties and activities of a District Leader. Stories of Hines's connection with …
PROFILE of Jimmy Hines, Destrict Tammany Leader, tells about the duties and activities of a District Leader. Stories of Hines's connection with …
Every Presidential campaign, makes me think of my first and only venture into national politics. I was assigned to the office of the Director of Publicity,…
Mr. Parkhill, who teaches English to foreigners, has a difficult time with a student, Mr. Kaplan, who has very little grasp of the English language.
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Trinity Church on a Sunday in August. Tells about the service, the summer congregation. It was Dr. Fleming who had …
How do things stand in the middle of the campaign? Well, at any rate the candidates remain the same. The Democratic nominee continues to be Mr. Roosevelt, …
Joe went to see his mother & father planning to ask for a loan of a dollar. His sister Mary, dressed to go out for the evening asked her mother for fifty …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Bannerman's Island. In the course of seventy years in the arms business, the Bannermans have gathered one of the finest …
REPORTER AT LARGE about vacant lot baseball diamonds in the city and outskirts: Astoria, Queens. Names of teams, "Incarnation", "Sacred Hearts", "Our …
PROFILE of Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine.
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Argentine polo ponies being auctioned off on Long Island. Mr. Jack Nelson, president of the Argentine association makes it …
PROFILE of Police Commissioner Valentine. Mr. Valentine is Chairman of the Board of Control for Major Catastrophic riots, bloodshed, floods, fires, …
Tells about the automobile race at the Roosevelt Raceway, recounts a story about Henry Ford. During an International automobile race in Florida a Frenchman…
Lois Long’s 1936 piece on fashion in Hollywood. “I came West and saw clothes that are so simple and so well bred that only the most dashing beauty could hope to make a dazzling first impression in them.”
Composite PROFILE of John Gilhaus, a former motorman on the Sixth Avenue line for 38 years. The company retired him when buses replaced the streetcars last…
Profile of John R. Todd, one of the members of the board of managers of Rockefeller Centre. Tells about the proposed site for the new Metropolitan Opera …
Joseph Mitchell on Dick’s Bar and Grill—a saloon with a twitchy neon sign, a cranky, sad-eyed proprietor, and a bar that sags, possibly from being moved in and out of speakeasies during Prohibition.
Wolcott Gibbs on Henry Luce, the founder of Time, Inc.
REPORTER AT LARGE. Case history of Joe Jamboni, born in Christopher Street, his father a drunkard, his mother on the verge of insanity, a young brother at …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the U. S. Coast Guard Air Service Tells about a trip in a Coast Guard plane, observations, plane, crew, etc. Aside from their main …
When the eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon asked the New York Sun whether St. Nick exists, the response became an immortal catchphrase, James Thurber writes. Who is she, all grown up?
PROFILE of Elliott Humphrey, founder of the Seeing Eye, a preparatory school at Morristown, N. J., where German shop herd dogs are taught to companion the …