PROFILE of Major General Edwin Forrest Harding, commanding a body of U. S. troops now serving overseas.
Best New Yorker Articles of 1943
Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1943 issues.
52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: A. J. Liebling (6)
Most featured section: A Reporter at Large
Featured Picks
REPORTER AT LARGE - the difficulty of finding deckspace on a crowded troop transport.
Fiction, from 1943: Mrs. Wilson was just taking the gingerbread out of the oven when she heard Johnny outside talking to someone.
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the Engineer Replacement Center at Fort Belvoir, Va., tank training station. Light tanks are kept on hand for training …
PROFILE of Paul Hodges, Chief Petty Officer of a destroyer.
REPORTER AT LARGE: Eyewitness account of the sinking of aeroplane carrier the Wasp. The men who sailed her called her the old Stinger. She got the name …
PROFILE of Major Philip Cochran, of the U. S. Air Forces in Africa; a celebrity with several million young Americans who follow the syndicated cartoon …
Janet Flanner’s classic 1943 Profile of the candid-as-glass Hollywood star Bette Davis.
PROFILE of Congressman Joseph Clark Baldwin. His greatest pleasure in Washington has probably been to arrange and conduct expeditions of several more or …
Profile of Joseph Clark Baldwin. Baldwin consistently opposed Tammany extravagance and chicanery. In April 1930, he introduced a resolution demanding that …
Reporter at Large about gout. The first known treatment of gout consisted of burning glax near the affected joint, presumably to smoke out the trouble. …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to one of the U.S. air based in Tunisia. Conversation with tent-mates; a couple of boys from the South, They relate their …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to a factory which makes special electrical equipment for the Armed serviced. Tells about what goes on during a night shift…
PROFILE of Hendrik Willem van Loon. Van Loon's chief rival in his household is his butler, William Spiess, a former lieutenant in the Swiss Army. No …
REPORTER AT LARGE from Tunisia. Speaks of the topographical resemblance between Tunisia and New Mexico; the handicrafts of the Arabs are similar to those …
REPORTER AT LARGE about small war production plants strew over the English countryside. Visit to such a plant in Surrey. It is a subsidiary to a large …
PROFILE of Major General Terry Allen. General Roosevelt is on more familiar terms with the enlisted men of the First Division than General Allen is, …
Reporter at Large about Youthbuilder, Inc., a club designed developed, and runfor the benefit of school children. It is the creation of Mrs. Sabra …
Fiction, from 1943: His eyes were closed and he seemed barely able, with her help, to stand on his feet.
REPORTER AT LARGE about escape from France by a Mrs. Jeffries.
PROFILE of Gilbert Miller, the theatrical producer. His wife, Helen Hays and Miller are good friends. Once, when a party was given at the Waldorf to …
PROFILE of Gilbert Miller. At a party in Hollywood, Louis B. Mayer crossed a patio to speak to Miller. Miller feels slightly hostile toward Mayer, who, he …
PROFILE of Augustus E. Giegengack, of the U. S. Printing Office. Giegengack was a popular lad in Brooklyn, a connoisseur of girls, beer and anecdote. The …
PROFILE of A.E. Giegengack, printer of the Stars & Stripes The paper, which in 1918 had a circulation among American soldiers of 550,000 & would have had …
Reporter at Large about an interview with Barney Baxter, survivor of a twenty-four day voyage on a wooden raft in the Pacific. Account of his experiences. …
Reflections by Gypsy Rose Lee, from 1943: “Teachers for my sister June and me were Mother’s greatest problem when we were touring the country as a child vaudeville act.”
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Diamond Dealers Club at 36 W. 47th Street. A good share of the world's diamond business was transacted in the four diamond …
PROFILE of Raymond C. Schindler, head of the Schindler Bureau of Investigation. The Lever Brothers Co., of Cambridge, Mass., was full of agony in the late …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the invasion flotilla off the coast of North Africa, making ready to invade Sicily. Only the skipper, Capt. L. B. Schulten, is an …
PROFILE of Sigmund M. Morey, president of the Morey Machinery Company. The Army - Navy E is no ordinary mark of governmental benediction. Any factory …
REPORTER AT LARGE. Aboard an American amphibious transport lying off Scoglitty, Sicily, ready to make a landing. Describes the actual landing of men and …
REPORTER AT LARGE about three men, members of the U.S. Navy armed guard assigned to a Dutch luxury liner that was torpedoes and sunk several hundred miles …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the experiences of Basil Cominick Izzi who, with two Dutch sailors survived eighty-three days of drifting in the Atlantic. Izzi was…
Fiction, from 1943: Mrs. Lennon took the envelope and the papers and held them out to Harriet. “Will you read them or shall I?” she asked kindly.
PROFILE of Moss Hart. With George S. Kaufman he has written "The Man Who Came To Dinner,""You Can't Take It with you," and "Once in a Lifetime." With …
Reporter at Large about a tour of the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Company, four days before the launching of the light cruiser Houston. Harold T. …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the Halloran General Hospital in Staten Island. The wounded are taken there as soon as they arrive in this country and …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a detachment sent into the town of Ficarra to find out if any German soldiers were about. The detachment was led by a Lieutenant …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the Long Acres Fruit Farm, in the Hudson Valley, where volunteer apple-pickers aere at work. Among the pickers, perched …
REPORTER AT LARGE-eyewitness account of an artillery duel and about reconnaissance duty close to the front. The regiment had been in the line for a week & …
PROFILE of Dr. & Mrs. Alfred Meyer. Annie Nathan Meyer has dedicated her adult life largely to establishing herself in the public mind as the single-handed…
Fiction, from 1943: “There’s plenty wrong,” the blind man said. “When people steal from a guy that doesn’t know what’s going on, there’s plenty wrong.”
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Anglo-American N. African campaign. Gafsa, called Capsa by the Numidians, is a very ancient town on a very slight hill in …
In the middle of a global war, Mollie Panter-Downes writes of a serious-faced young Princess who may one day mount England’s ancient throne.
Wolcott Gibbs writes about the New Yorker office during wartime, a week before Thanksgiving, in 1943. “There is, in fact, so much to be thankful for.”
PROFILE of George Grosz, the artist. He has tacked up specimens of calendar art dealing with such subjects as "Grandma's Birthday," and Saturday …
Reporter at large about the black market in food stuffs in the city. Interview with Max Mencher, sec. of the N.Y. City Dept. of Markets; shopping tour with…
PROFILE of artist George Grosz.
PROFILE of Staff Sergeant Maynard Smith, aerial gunner of a Flying Fortress, who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, America's highest …
REPORTER AT LARGE about American prisoners of war homeward bound on the exchange ship Gripsholm. Tells about the last leg of the journey.