Reporter at Large about a bombing mission to the Japanese island of Iwo. Describes the last dramatic flight of "The Chambermaid," a B-24 Liberator bomber. …
Best New Yorker Articles of 1945
Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1945 issues.
52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: Alva Johnston (4)
Most featured section: A Reporter at Large
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the Persian Gulf Command, a military operation, whose entire task was to deliver American supplies to the Russians as rapidly as …
PROFILE of Gabriel Heatter, who covered Bruno Hauptmann's trial. On the afternoon of Friday, April 3, 1936, the day of the execution, Heatter went to …
REPORTER AT LARGE about England. Speaks of the nonchalance with which the English take air-raids. Alfred Lunt was standing in the wings one night ready to …
REPORTER AT LARGE about strange events that took place in the village of Comblanchien on the evening of Aug. 21, 1944. That evening, some German soldiers …
PROFILE of Beardsley Ruml. Ruml's mother came from New England of a family of Scottish-English stock, among whose descendants are the Alka-Seltzer and …
PROFILE of Breadsley Ruml. In 1922, at the age 27, Ruml was engaged to think up plans for spending 74 million dollars which John D. Rockefeller, Sr. had …
REPORTER AT LARGE, about the freeing of prisoners interned at the old Spanish penitentiary of Bilibid, Manila. Our intelligence knew nothing about the fact…
A REPORTER AT LARGE about the most bombed-out family in London, the Duggans, mother, father, and thirteen children.
Profile of Norman Rockwell. Schaeffer, another illustrator and painter, also lives in Arlington, Vermont.
REPORTER AT LARGE about Major General Donald H. Connolly's Persian Gulf Command. Origin of the name Persia, history, culture, the zir khaneh or …
Profile of Joseph Platzker, Assistant Commissioner of the Department of Housing and Building, who is also in charge of the City Vacancy Listing Bureau, an …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Persian Gulf Command. The unloading at Khorramshar was done by two battalions, one white, the other colored. There was a great …
Tennessee Williams, the playwright behind “The Glass Menagerie,” reflects on his career.
REPORTER AT LARGE about a seven-day march from the Adriatic Coast to Drvar, in Bosnia, half the time through German-held territory. The group consisted of …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a seven-day march from the Adriatic Coast to Drvar, in Bosnia, half the time through German-held territory. The group consisted of …
Writing in 1945, Janet Flanner speaks with a concentration-camp survivor.
PROFILE of Jean Wahl, the French philosopher, poet, and Sorbonne professor who has been called by Jacques Maritain "the best philosopher among the …
REPORTER AT LARGE about S/Sgt. Edward F. Allison, a redeployed soldier, of Alameda, California. He fought the Japs on Attu, was assigned to the …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the fighting in Okinowa, and the old argument: are the Marines superior to the Army in combat. Explains the basic function and …
PROFILE of Karl C. Warner, an American soldier, known to the NintyDivision as Molotov, Mollie, or the Mayor of Broadway. Mollie served in the 60th Infantry…
On Armand Brigaud's "Killers on Safari", a story which appeared in a pulp magazine called "Jungle Stories."
Mrs. Semplon's new all-in-one kitchen, all electrified and automatic. The only things she couldn't put into the dish washing machine were highball …
REPORTER AT LARGE about war correspondents & public relations men & officers of the Eight Army in Africa. Colonel Baranoff, a Russian correspondent for …
Monologue. Attorney Edgar D. Moss, representing Harriet Boykin who had been injured in tripping on a hole in the linoleum at the Liberty Bell Cafeteria. …
PROFILE of Joe E. Brown tells about Brown's appearance at D. J. Grauman's Unique Theatre, in San Francisco. For box-office reasons, Grauman fed his…
REPORTER AT LARGE about the black market and black market operators in New York City. Tells about the case of the Abdullah Linen Company, in the West …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the surrender of U-805, A German submarine, the second to be brought into an east-coast post under the terms of the Reich's …
PROFILE of Pvt. John Daniel Ramey, a student at a school, officially known as the Special Training Unit of the 3384th Service Unit, a place at which an …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Hugh G. Flood, a retired house-wrecking contractor, an amateur ichtyologist, and honorary Mayor of the Fulton Fish Market. Mr. …
REPORTER AT LARGE about London children, billeted all over England during the blitz, and now being returned to their homes. In a single week, the …
Talk story about Dr. John R. Dunning releasing atomic energy by splitting uranium. It was on the night of Jan. 25, 1939. That morning, Dr. Enrico Fermi had…
Fiction, from 1945: Now I know I just didn’t have sense enough to see the baby had talent.
Profile of Howard Berkey Bishop, a chemical engineer of Summit, N.J., the country's most spirited crusader against tobacco, liquor, coffee, tea, cola …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Army Transportation Corps and the job of transporting returning soldiers. The Black Hawk Division, the Eighty-sixth was the …
Monte Carlo. The accordion player who performed lying down. He was also a ballet enthusiast and knew most of the members of the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe. …
PROFILE of Charles E. Bedaux, discoverer of the "measurement of human energy." Definition of the system; names of important firms using it in this country,…
REPORTER AT LARGE about the treason trial of William Joyce, the Lord Haw Haw of German radio propaganda. His father, Michael Joyce, had been a naturalized …
Second Part of Profile of Bedaux, inventor of the Bedaux industrial speedup system. He would have been the only American citizen ever to be charged with …
Three-part article on Charles E. Bedaux, industrialist-efficiency expert, inventor of "measurement of human energy" speedup system. He would have been the …
REPORTER AT LARGE from Greece. Conversation with two Greek professors who have become political figures: George Georg alas, & Alexander Svolos. Georgalas, …
Mentionin Profile of the U.S.S. New York. Mr. Meyer, Sec. of the Navy in 1912, attended the christening of the battle ship.
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Maharajah of Kapurthala entertaining American Army men who had come to Lahor to buy a supply of dry ice for our men in India. A…
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Fort Du Pont, Delaware, where some of the 400,000 German prisoners of war in this country are interned.
REPORTER AT LARGE about Crete & a visit to the runis of the palace of Minos at Knossos. The Minoan civilication has come and gone without leaving the key …
PROFILE of DeWitt Wallace, editor of the Reader's Digest. Biographical sketch of his father, Dr. James Wallace, who was a scholar of Greek & Latin, and…
REPORTER AT LARGE about Dr. Sachs, the man who got President Roosevelt interested in atomic research. Biographical sketch of the scientist, account of the …
PROFILE of DeWitt Wallace, owner & editor of the Reader's Digest, presented as though written by one Nicholas Popkov, a Russian, who was supposed to …
PROFILE of DeWitt Wallace, founder & editor of The Reader's Digest. Breakdown of circulation; American, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Finnish,…
Inspired by the Fruit-of-the-Month Club, which sends a different fruit each month to its members, a man decides there ought to be a service which sends out…
Profile of Lawrence Ottinger, president of the United States Plywood Company. Tells about Donald Deskey's contribution to making plywood more a more …