Best New Yorker Articles of 1942
Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1942 issues.
52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: A. J. Liebling (8)
Most featured section: A Reporter at Large
Featured Picks
PROFILE of Daniel Arnstein. John D. Hertz, the founder of the Yellow Cab Co., gave Arnstein his first job-that was in 1909, when Hertz was running the …
PROFILE of Daniel Arnstein. To help the Burma Road mission, Arnstein picked a couple of his friends Harold C. Davis, vice--resident of the Consolidated …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Asst. Atty. Genl. Thurman Arnold's anti-trust suit against the Aluminum Co. Of America. In a self-congratulatory publicty …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the trial of the Aluminum Co. of America. His story of the aluminum industry. Aluminun has been known only since 1825, when a …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the work of the Civilian Defence in N. Y. C. Visit to the sector headquarters of Zone 2, 19th Precinct. The office space has been …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Kensington-Upon-Hull, England's most heavily blitzed town. Description, visit to the office of the local newspaper …
PROFILE of Leon Fraser, president of the classically conservative First National Bank in Wall Street. The bank has resources of about a billion dollars, …
PROFILE of Hannes Schneider, the ski instructor. He skied in "The Ski Chase," a film in which Leni Riefenstahl, the actress, who was or was not …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the London Zoological Gardens. Dr. Huxley is secretary of the Zoological Society which runs the Zoo.
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the Danbury Penitentiary. The prison capacity is about 600 men. It was designed originally for convicts serving …
REPORTER AT LARGE about crossing the Atlantic in the tanker "Christian Th. Boe," during wartime.
PROFILE of Donald Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board. Mr. Nelson turned down a publicity campaign pattiotically conceived by Steve Hannagan, the …
REPORTER AT LARGE about crossing the Atlantic in the tanker "Christian Th. Boe," during wartime.
Reporter at Large about the National Council of Social Service in London, an agency equipped to deal with such trouble as the inarticulate masses to whom …
REPORTER AT LARGE. Lieutenant Archibald Cameron, of H.M.S. Phoebe now undergoing repairs at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, gives eye-witness account of the battle…
REPORTER AT LARGE about the British "Combined Operations, or group now called Commandos, whose chief is Lord Mount-batten. Commandos are specially trained …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a Colonel of the Free French Air Forces. He tells about his escapades. The Colonel pretended to be mad when he was arrested in a …
PROFILE of Ralph Ingersoll, editor of PM. His leave-of-absence technique has got to be so basic a part of Ingersoll's labor policy that it picked up a …
Descriptions of restaurants on stray match covers; places we are not likely to see for some time because of the tire shortage. Mentions Chateau de Jour, …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Palmyra, N.Y., birthplace of Joseph Smith, Jr. founder of Mormonism. The shrine of Mormonism is the Hill Cumorah. On the summit of …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a typical war-boom town in Conn.; its housing conditions with an added population from ten to fifteen thousand people; what …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Lieutenant Archibald Cameron, serving on H. M. S. Phoebe, a British cruiser, tells about a tour of duty which included picking up …
PROFILE of Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr. United States representative to Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Yugoslavia, Czecho-Slovakia, Luxembourg,…
PROFILE of Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr. United States representative to Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Yugoslavia, Czecho-Slovakia, Luxembourg,…
Reporter at Large about a visit to an anti-aircraft unit. Among the lonliest troops are the men assigned to our small anti-aircraft units. The U.S.O., in …
PROFILE of Mrs. Alice Throckmorton McLean, organizer and President of A.W.V.S. Ticklish questions as to what is or isn't correct for a woman in uniform…
PROFILE of George Dudley Tilley, who operates the country's oldest ornamental-bird farm, selling bright & unusual fowl to estate owners, aviaries, and …
REPORTER AT LARGE about spending a night in the guardhouse of a military camp. The day selected was a Sat. after payday. Reporter spent the night in …
REPORTER AT LARGE about wives of young Army fliers stationed at Mitchell and Langley Fields. Visit to the home Major Carlos Cochrane. The Major was awarded…
REPORTER AT LARGE about conditions in Germany & in the German occupied countries. There was more European interest in the Riom trial than in any other of …
REPORTER AT LARGE gives an account of a nonstop voyage from California to Australia aboard a troopship.
PROFILE of Johnny Nikanov, who claims that he is the head- king of all the Russian, Serbian, Rumanian, Syrian, Turkish, Bulgarian, German & English gypsies…
PROFILE of Dr. Maurice William, a New York dentist, who changed the course of Chinese history through his book "The Social Interpretation of History."
REPORTER AT LARGE about the first American troops to arrive in Australia, and an American reporter's impression of the country, its people and their …
REPORTER AT LARGE about experiences in a U. S. Army hospital. Being admitted to an Army hospital is a little like taking the subway during the rush hours -…
Profile of Major George Fielding Eliot. With a friend named Colonel R. Ernest Dupuy, who had been his collaborator on some pulp stories, the Major …
PROFILE of Frank Crowninshield. Once during a match at the Links Club in which Crowninshield beat Fontaine Fox one up, the cartoonist muffed the drive on …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to one of the thirty National Camp Schools, which have been set up with the government's blessing and financial …
PROFILE of Murray Korman, photographer of models, show girls, actresses, and miscellaneous theatrical aspirants. This studio is at 701 Seventh Avenue. At …
PROFILE of Wilson Mizner. Talking about Tom Sharkey, the great heavyweight prizefighter, who kept a saloon with the old-fashioned swinging doors, Mizner …
PROFILE of Wilson Mizner who married Mrs. Charles T. Yerkes Her previous husband was Charles T. Yerkes, whose name is known today mainly because of the …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the experiences of Miss Albertine Bry, a Dutch nurse who has served at sea since 1939. She took a job as a nurse on the Dutch liner…
REPORTER AT LARGE. Cannes before the war & now; Monte Carlo the Riviera. In Auribeau, a hamlet perched on the slopes behind Cannes with 185 inhabitants, …
PROFILE OF Flying Fortress Dixie Demo, Jr.'s crew. First Lt. H. M. Locker, Jr, the Demo's co-pilot trained as s pursuit pilot before being …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Greenwich MobileUnit, Inc., probably the only guerrilla force in the world which operates as a corporation. The unit was …
Visit to the Kermit Roosevelt Oyster Bay estate which has been lent as a home for convalescent seamen. Interview with Dr. Daniel Blain, medical director of…
PROFILE of Glenn L. Martin tells about his days as an exhibition flyer, his career in aviation, and his airplane factories. Many of his greatest …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Rolling Umpty-Seventh regiment The soldiers of the Rolling Umpty-seventh, a motor-truck regiment of the U. S. Army, are colored…
Profile of Joseph Ferdinand Gould, Harvard graduate, hobo panhandler and writer of "An Oral History of Our Time." Gould is a Yankee. His branch of the …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Cyril Thomas Edward Charles Faircloth, a British seaman, who told about fighting with the B. E. F. in Belgium and France. He was …
PROFILE of Major General Edwin Forrest Harding, commanding a body of U. S. troops now serving overseas.