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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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THE MAYOR OF THE FISH MARKET.
Joseph Mitchell · Profiles · January 1

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 …

SIGNIFICANT SIG AND THE FUNNIES.
John Bainbridge · Profiles · January 8

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 …

GOODBYE, WAR!
Daniel Lang · A Reporter at Large · January 15

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Engineers Replacement Training Center at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, one of the camps at which our troops, in this case, …

Any Bonds Today? - I
Geoffrey T. Hellman · Profiles · January 22

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 …

Any Bonds Today? - II
Geoffrey T. Hellman · Profiles · January 29

PROFILE of Henry Morgenthau, Jr. He leans heavily on Herbert E. Gaston, senior Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, for public relations, and at the …

DUMPLINGS IN OUR SOUP.
Brendan Gill · A Reporter at Large · February 5

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 …

La France et le Vieux I - From the Empress Eugenie to the A.E.F.
Janet Flanner · Profiles · February 12

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 …

La France et le Vieux II - Hero of Verdun
Janet Flanner · Profiles · February 19

Profile of Marshall Petain- the battle of Verdun. Legend correctly haloed Petain as the titular savior of Verdun and incorrectly credited him with, saying …

La France et le Vieux III - Versailles to Vichy
Janet Flanner · Profiles · February 26
A Fine Old Firm
Shirley Jackson · Fiction · March 4

Fiction, from 1944: “I guess we know about as much about Bob as you do by now,” Helen said.

HOW TO BE A CRITIC
Wolcott Gibbs · Profiles · March 11

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 …

Three Ladies in the Morning
Roger Angell · Fiction · March 18

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.

Crime Passionnel
Louis Bromfield · Fiction · March 25

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, …

UNSHAKEN FRIEND - I
Malcolm Cowley · Profiles · April 1

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 …

UNSHAKEN FRIEND - II
Malcolm Cowley · Profiles · April 8

PROFILE of Maxwell Evarts Perkins, editor of Scribner's. Scribner's did not publish the realists who emerged during the so-called American …

INHABITANT OF THE AIR.
Barbara Heggie · Profiles · April 15

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 …

The Testimony of a Sinner
Russell Maloney · Profiles · April 22

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 …

New York City’s Eternal War on Rats
Joseph Mitchell · A Reporter at Large · April 29

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.

GREAT PROVIDER.
Mollie Panter-Downes · Profiles · May 6

PROFILE of Lord Woolton, former Minister of Food, who has been appointed to the post of England's first Minister of Reconstruction.

The Heroes From Uptown
Eugene Kinkead · A Reporter at Large · May 13

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 …

NO PLACE LIKE HOME.
E. J. Kahn · A Reporter at Large · May 20

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 …

The Mayor of Futani
John Lardner · Profiles · May 27

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 …

FACE, FIGURE, FASCINATION, AND FITNESS
Angelica Gibbs · A Reporter at Large · June 3

REPORTER AT LARGE about the DuBarry Success School ofwhich Miss Delafield is the director. Hiss D. is not a beautician She graduated from Doctor …

Commander With a Camera - II
Matthew Josephson · Profiles · June 10

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 …

Survival
John Hersey · A Reporter at Large · June 17

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.

How Duke Ellington Took Jazz from the Back Yard to Buckingham Palace
Richard O. Boyer · Profiles · June 24

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.”

Cross-Channel Trip
A. J. Liebling · A Reporter at Large · July 1

A. J. Liebling’s 1944 report from the D Day landings.

CROSS-CHANNEL TRIP—II
A. J. Liebling · A Reporter at Large · July 8

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 …

Cross-Channel Trip—III
A. J. Liebling · A Reporter at Large · July 15

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 …

Gunners' Passage
Irwin Shaw · Fiction · July 22

Barracks conversation between Sergeant Whitejack from North Carolina, a young Greek-American who had been on missions over Greece, and a young boy from …

Socko!
Philip Hamburger · Profiles · July 29

PROFILE of Martin Block, disc-jockey of Station WNEW. During the Bruno Hauptmann trial WNEW had installed a commentator, A. L. Alexander, in the …

Colloquy
Shirley Jackson · Fiction · August 5

Fiction, from 1944: “Doctor,” she said, “how do people tell if they’re going crazy?”

YOUNG MAN BEHIND PLEXIGLASS
Brendan Gill · Profiles · August 12

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 …

My Dear Little Louise
A. J. Liebling · A Reporter at Large · August 19

Reporter at Large from Brittany. Letters found in an abandoned farm house used as division artillery headquarters command post. The letters were dated …

Public Relations - II
Alva Johnston · Profiles · August 26

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…

Public Relations - III
Alva Johnston · Profiles · September 2

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 …

Public Relations-IV
Alva Johnston · Profiles · September 9

Profile of Russell Birdwell, Hollywood press agent. Birdwell was criticized for bad taste because of his Career Insurance movement. He was accused of …

Baby at Vassar
Emily Hahn · A Reporter at Large · September 16

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 …

IN SEARCH FOR A BATTLE.
Walter Bernstein · A Reporter at Large · September 23

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Italian battlefront. Writer, attached to the regimental headquarters, had orders to join the battalion as it marched past the …

Katherine Anne Porter
Edmund Wilson · Books · September 30

Edmund Wilson’s 1944 review.

A STRANGE PLACE TO BE GROWING THINGS
Robert M. Coates · A Reporter at Large · October 7

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 …

Why Do People Read Detective Stories?
Edmund Wilson · Books · October 14
Education of an Army - II
E. J. Kahn · Profiles · October 21

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. …

Good Citizen - I
Richard H. Rovere · Profiles · October 28

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 …

Good Citizen - II
Richard H. Rovere · Profiles · November 4

PROFILE of Newbold Morris, President of the City Council Speaks about issues & measures the City Council spends its time on. The city legislature - aside …

Miss Latimer and Her Kit B.
Katharine T. Kinkead · A Reporter at Large · November 11

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 …

Captain Among the Synthetics - II
Robert Lewis Taylor · Profiles · November 18

PROFILE of Capt. Luis de Florez, the head of the Navy's synthetic training devices, a collection of complicated machines that stimulate the conditions …

Coffins! Undertakers! Hearses! Funeral Parlors!
Joseph Mitchell · A Reporter at Large · November 25

Joseph Mitchell’s 1944 Profile of Hugh G. Flood, the unofficial mayor of the Fulton Fish Market.

Trial of Two Spies
Daniel Lang · A Reporter at Large · December 2

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 …

Foreign Secretary - II
Mollie Panter-Downes · Profiles · December 9

PROFILE of Robert Anthony Eden, Britain's Foreign Secretary.

Trial by Combat
Shirley Jackson · Fiction · December 16

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.”

Dark Ship - II
Richard O. Boyer · Profiles · December 23

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 …

When Things Get Dark
Shirley Jackson · Fiction · December 30

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.

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