Best New Yorker Articles of 1937
Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1937 issues.
52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: Jack Alexander (10)
Most featured section: Profiles
Featured Picks
REPORTER AT LARGE about a train trip to the shops of the Lehigh Valley Railroad at Sayre, Pennsylvania, chartered by the N. Y. Chapter of the Railway & …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Associated Cemeteries Corporation, 469 Tenth Avenue, which sells cemetery lots. The Corporation was formed last February, and …
How to carve a reputation in Society as bait. According to Miss Alice Leone Moats of Town and Country the men about town considered as the most interesting…
The door opened and in came a woman in her late forties. She went through the foyer and in to the living room. "Hello Tommy, what are you doing up so …
PROFILE of John S. Sumner, Secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. He deals with the writing of smut.
PROFILE of Otto Harbach. His musical comedies and a few straight farces have had more New York performances than those of any living playwright. Forty-nine…
The year after the writer graduated from school she came out. Nothing happened to her in that summer in between. But somehow she remembers it so vividly, …
Dr. Louis E. Bisch, M. D., Ph.D., the "Be-Glad- You're-Neurotic" man, has a remarkable chapter which deals, in part, with man, sex, and the machine. …
PROFILE of Morris Bimstein (Whitey) the best-known prize-fight second and trainer. Tells about his miracles of facial surgery between rounds, turning …
"He came in with a flourish, swinging his generous brown leather case, doffing his hat, and smiling a nice, boyish smile. 'Ladies', he announced. …
Sir John Simon, the Home Secretaty, has invented a audible golf ball something after the principle of the Mills bomb. When it lands, it emits a squeak at …
TEPORTER AT LARGE about Cafe Royal, located on the south-east corner of 12th Street and 2nd Avenue. It is the forum of Jewish intelligentsia, the place to …
Reporter at Large about a psyciatric conference at Bellevue Hospital. Describes the reception hall, with murals by WPA, also the conference room. There was…
Reporter at Large about the American Arbitration Association with offices at 521-5th Avenue. The association was formed in 1926 as a movement to eliminate,…
(Note Found In An Empty Stomach Off Santa Barbara) At the Best Drug Stores in Los Angeles the writer dined off an avocado sandwich on whole wheat and a …
Visit to the Assembly and Senate Chambers in Albany. Describes the sessions. The proceedings were more sedate in the Seante than in the Assembly, for the …
REPORTER AT LARGE about pigeons & pigeon-fanciers in the city. John Bacci, a stationary-storekeeper, on the lower East Side, raises pigeons because he …
A visit to the Fuller Brush Company's office. Martin Gilbert, the salesman, coaches some new salesmen in "customer approach." Tells also about a visit …
PROFILE of Sidney Freeman, a kind of American trade name for a syndicate of British bookmakers who are in the business of buying up sweepstake tickets. A …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Robert Spero, "Uncle Robert," tells how the idea of Parents' Day originated. Uncle Robert set up Parents Day in direct …
PROFILE of Walter S. Gifford, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co.
PROFILE of Walter S. Gifford, chief executive of the Bell Telephone Company. History of the largest business in the world, Metropolitan Life Insurance …
REPORTER AT LARGE. Mr. Whalen, president of the World's Fair has banned the American word "Midway," he appears to prefer "Amusement Area." He has also …
PROFILE of Jesse L. Lasky. The first feature picture made in Hollywood was "The Squaw Man." It was produced by the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co., which …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a Fourth of July Rally at Tammany Hall. It was a very tame celebration compared with patriotic orgies of former years. Mentions …
PROFILE of Austustine J. Grenet, pricemaker, who furnishes information to bookmakers and big operators & also a racing news agency which distributes his …
REPORTER AT LARGE about speakeasies during the probition era. Aldo's West of Eight Avenue, in the Forties, was a small place and run by a woman named …
Composit profile of Peter Duff, auctioneer of the Midtown Bankrupt Stocks Auction Company, in the Times Square district. These "grind joints" seldom …
A young man who had travelled in Indo-China, tells his fellow travellers about his worries; the customs- a few cases of champagne, and crates of stuff he …
PROFILE of Cooper Union, founded by Peter Cooper, and opened in 1859. Tells about its art school, mentions former students, Morgan F. Larson, ex-Governor …
Reporter at Large about historical spots along the Hudson River, Tappan, where Major Andre spent his last three days on earth, Piermont Village, Minehole, …
Reporter at Large about historical spots along the Hudson River, Tappan, where Major Andre spent his last three days on earth, Piermont Village, Minehole, …
PROFILE of Arthur Walsh who opened a branch office of Benson & Hedges in this country in 1897. Biographical sketches of the founders, William Hedges and …
PROFILE of Tim Mara, bookmaker & founder of the Turf and Gridiron Club. In 1925, Mara established the N. Y. Football Giants, the profiessional eleven which…
PROFILEof John Edgar Hoover. Tells about the F.B.I.s identification division, which had the fingerprinsts of more than 7 million persons with records of …
PROFILEof John Edgar Hoover. Tells about the F.B.I.s identification division, which had the fingerprinsts of more than 7 million persons with records of …
PROFILEof John Edgar Hoover. Tells about the F.B.I.s identification division, which had the fingerprinsts of more than 7 million persons with records of …
Profile of Maury H.B. Paul, society writer for the Journal American, wnder the pen name of Cholly Knickerbocker, He has also written under the names of …
PROFILE of Maury H. B. Paul (Cholly Knickerbocker). Last summer he received a letter from Mr. Hubbard, a Wilton squire, asking him to send one dollar for a…
Mr. Whitten tries to buy a pair of shoes but the shoe clerk refuses to sell him the pair he liked saying that they didn't fit.
PROFILE of Ben Stein known as '"the greatest paper-hanger in the world." His biggest Job was the hanging of the Ezra Winter mural in Radio City. Tells …
Mr. Robinson and Mr. Watkins both hate Fairfox Avenue, the street they live in, with all the houses alike. Walking home one Saturday night, each …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the Amerikadeutscher Volksbund meeting on Lexington Avenue and 85th Street. There are about 17,000 members in N. Y. C., …
Profile Lucius Beebe.
Idioms used in comparing man with the animals. Sly as a fox, mean as a coyote, fat as a pig, crazy as a loon, blind as a bat, inquisitive as a magpie, …
In this Talk story from 1937, A. J. Leibling interviews a twenty-two-year-old who had created history with his productions of “Macbeth” and “Doctor Faustus” even before “Julius Caesar.”
REPORTER AT LARGE. In 1933, Fritz Weinmann was of the opinion that the Hitler regime might be a good thing for Germany. While the government appeared to …
Instances recently reported in the Daily Press which hint at the development of a world-wide tendency to remove water from its normal habitat.