PROFILE of Hugh G. Flood, a retired house-wrecking contractor, aged ninety-three who is determined to live until the afternoon of July 27, 1965, when he …
Best New Yorker Articles of 1944
Explore 53 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1944 issues.
53 picks · 53 issues · Top author: Shirley Jackson (4)
Most featured section: Profiles
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PROFILE of Milton Caniff, originator of "Terry and the Pirates." 14% of the men & women in this country have a favorite newspaper columnist; 51% have a …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Engineers Replacement Training Center at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, one of the camps at which our troops, in this case, …
PROFILE of Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury. His chief assistantsin the planning of War Bond sales are two young men known in the Treasury …
PROFILE of Henry Morgenthau, Jr. He leans heavily on Herbert E. Gaston, senior Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, for public relations, and at the …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the British refugee children who have been and are living in Tuxedo Park. Their stay has been made possible by residents of the …
PROFILE of Marshal Petain. The most famous Marshal, Achille Bazaine, was so scandalized on hearing towards the end of the war in 1870, that, upon the fall …
Profile of Marshall Petain- the battle of Verdun. Legend correctly haloed Petain as the titular savior of Verdun and incorrectly credited him with, saying …
Fiction, from 1944: “I guess we know about as much about Bob as you do by now,” Helen said.
PROFILE of Kelcey Allen, drama critic of Women's Wear Daily, he is the dean of daily reviewers, and, as a humorist, he has probably been credited with …
The author’s début short story in The New Yorker, about two women who encounter a surprising scene over their morning coffee at a hotel restaurant.
France: Josephine, the sixteen-year-old nursery maid and her escapades; her affairs with the local men and her shooting of a sergeant who, she said, …
PROFILE of Maxwell Evarts Perkins tells about the first story he wrote for the N. Y. Times. He sat around the Time office for a year, writing almost …
PROFILE of Maxwell Evarts Perkins, editor of Scribner's. Scribner's did not publish the realists who emerged during the so-called American …
PROFILE of Alicia Markova, ballarine of the Ballet Theatre. She was born Lilian Alicia Marks in London. At the age of ten she entered a school in London …
PROFILE of J. B. Matthews, Director of Research of the Die. Committee, or consulting expert one who is and is not a good citizen. The Dies Committee was …
Joseph Mitchell writes about New York’s rats, whose population increased during the Second World War, and speaks to various experts about the creatures’ habits and the difficulties of exterminating them.
PROFILE of Lord Woolton, former Minister of Food, who has been appointed to the post of England's first Minister of Reconstruction.
REPORTER AT LARGE about New York's naval training school. Its classrooms & dormitories are tucked away aboard the U. S. S. Prarie State, a craft which …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Overseas Discharge and Reassignment Unit, an Army camp in this country where some officers and men just back from Italy were …
PROFILE of Tony Cuda, the Mayor of Futani, a hilltown in Italy. Cuda had lived in America. Nearly all the characteristics of the Italiana-from the-States …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the DuBarry Success School ofwhich Miss Delafield is the director. Hiss D. is not a beautician She graduated from Doctor …
PROFILE of Edward Steichen, the photographer. Hartman once said to Steichen, "Little did you know that my whole life has been a fight for the nude, for …
John Hersey’s account of how, during the Second World War, J.F.K. battled to save the crew of PT-109 while adrift in the South Pacific.
Part 1 of Richard O. Boyer’s “The Hot Bach” Profile series about the jazz musician Duke Ellington and how he composes his songs, including “New World A-Coming.”
A. J. Liebling’s 1944 report from the D Day landings.
REPORTER AT LARGE about D Day invasion. Lieutenant Long said that he had seen the commander start off from the ship at a good clip, ran well until he got …
REPORTER AT LARGE. Recapitulation of D Day happenings. D Day-plus-one activities, that of unloading soldiers from a big troopship several miles off the …
Barracks conversation between Sergeant Whitejack from North Carolina, a young Greek-American who had been on missions over Greece, and a young boy from …
PROFILE of Martin Block, disc-jockey of Station WNEW. During the Bruno Hauptmann trial WNEW had installed a commentator, A. L. Alexander, in the …
Fiction, from 1944: “Doctor,” she said, “how do people tell if they’re going crazy?”
PROFILE of Lt. Joseph Theodore Hallock. Two years ago he was an undergraduate of the U. of Oregon; today he is a veteran bombardier who has completed …
Reporter at Large from Brittany. Letters found in an abandoned farm house used as division artillery headquarters command post. The letters were dated …
PROFILE of Russell Birdwell, Hollywood press agent. Tells about his publicity work for Elaine Shephard, a free client. She was called on to be a judge in a…
PROFILE of Russell Birdwell, Hollywood press agent. Victo Watson, the news editor of the Mirror, called Bridewell in one day and told him to go out and …
Profile of Russell Birdwell, Hollywood press agent. Birdwell was criticized for bad taste because of his Career Insurance movement. He was accused of …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Vassar Summer Institute for Family and Community Living. It was established, as the Institute of Euthenics, 18 years ago. Dr. Mary …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Italian battlefront. Writer, attached to the regimental headquarters, had orders to join the battalion as it marched past the …
Edmund Wilson’s 1944 review.
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Knaust brothers's mushroom mines at Kingston, N. Y. Until the end of the 19th century Kingston was the centre of two now …
PROFILE of Lieutenant General McNair. McNair refused to join the flow to the Pentagon, perhaps the greatest mass movement since the opening of Radio City. …
PROFILE of Newbold Morris, President of the City Council. Last summer the Council hastened to pass a bill whose only visible support came from the Mirror …
PROFILE of Newbold Morris, President of the City Council Speaks about issues & measures the City Council spends its time on. The city legislature - aside …
A Reporter at Large about the Red Cross over seas hospital recreation division and how its workers are trained. Excerpts from reports from Miss Grace …
PROFILE of Capt. Luis de Florez, the head of the Navy's synthetic training devices, a collection of complicated machines that stimulate the conditions …
Joseph Mitchell’s 1944 Profile of Hugh G. Flood, the unofficial mayor of the Fulton Fish Market.
REPORTER AT LARGE about the trial of two Italian spies, a former Army captain, Carlos Barghiglioni, and a 48-year-old school teacher by the name of Olga …
PROFILE of Robert Anthony Eden, Britain's Foreign Secretary.
Fiction, from 1944: “Emily had known for some time who was taking the things, but it was only tonight that she had decided what to do.”
Second Part of PROFILE of the troop transport Marquette tells about union activities aboard a ship. The first union business after the ship leaves port on …
Fiction, from 1944: Mrs. Garden’s lips trembled and she put her hand up to her mouth. “I suppose everyone gets desperate sometimes,” she said.