Eugene Kinkead’s 1946 interview with Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., who piloted the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
Best New Yorker Articles of 1946
Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1946 issues.
52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: Richard H. Rovere (4)
Most featured section: A Reporter at Large
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Lt. Lemick-Emden and about atrocities committed in the village of Caizzo, in the Volturne sector, where several farmers & their …
Profile of Peter J. McGuinness, Democratic leader of Green point. McGuinnes entered politics at the age of eight, wher he became a ward heeler for Senator …
REPORTER AT LARGE about William Joyce, Lord Haw Haw who, in September was sentenced to death for treason. He appealed and the case was reviewed by the …
REPORTER AT LARGE about an individual employee of the Manhattan Engineer District at Oak Ridge, Edward Jackson. He inspects incoming equipment for a plant …
PROFILE of Howard S. Cullman, the theatrical investor. Tells about his 5-year trustee-ship of the Roxy Theatre. In '32, Cullman was appointed receiver …
PROFILE of Howard S. Cullman, of the Cullman Brothers tobacco firm, president of the Beekman Downtown Hospital, chairman of Port of N. Y. Authority, and …
PROFILE of Dr. Bruno Furst, a memory expert, mental telepathist, hypnotist, & professional graphologist, & founder of the School of Memory & Concentration.…
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Durley, in Hamsphire, a camp for Jewish children brought to England from Nazi concentration camps. Belsen and Buchenwald…
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Little Portion, the monastery of the Order of the Poor Brethren of St. Francis. Little Portion is one of the smallest …
From 1946: A. J. Liebling on Jean-Paul Sartre delivering a lecture about new tendencies in French theatre, his “precaution” to not learn spoken English, and his approval of New York “without qualification.”
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the town of Moravska- Ostrava, in Czechoslovakia, which is today a Russian garrison town. Tells about finding the only …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Roosevelt stamp collection. Like Roosevelt, King George derived a beneficial relaxation from stamps. The King, however, was a …
REPORTER AT LARGE about visiting George Santayana at the Hospital and Convent of the Blue Nuns, in Rome, where Santyana has been living for the past two …
Reporter at Large about accompanying an out-of-town ladies garment buyer on his round of the wholesale and manufacturing houses in town. There is little or…
REPORTER AT LARGE about a tour of the old Gas-house district now being cleared of the slums to make way for the huge housing project to be undertaken by …
Reporter at Large about UNRA supplies for Greece being loaded aboard the William Pepperell for immediate shipment Among the shipment waiting to be loaded …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Robert W. Green, of W. Trenton, N. J., the first man in this country to import Sardinian donkeys for the purpose of building up a …
PROFILE of Father Walter P. Morse, a Cowley Father, and the story of his work at the Episcopal Mission of Ichang, China.
PROFILE of Charles Brady King, the man who designed and built the first car to be driven through the streets of Detroit, this was in 1896. His machine was …
PROFILE of Molnar, the playwright, tells about his nocturnal existence. Once it was interrupted; he was summoned to be a witness at a trial. It was born …
Eleanor Perenyi, in her book about Hungary, "More Was Lost," tells how shocked her noble husband was when, newly arrived from America some ten years ago, …
Reporter At Large: Dr. Morrison, a member of a group of men sent to Hiroshima to determine the effect of the atomic bomb, tells about the mission and its …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the Sperry Gyroscope Company's stratochamber to observe an experimental "flight The stratochamber is a contrivance …
PROFILE of Samuel Slotkin, president of the board of Hygrade Food Products Corporation, which operates 60 plants, wholesaling fresh, processed, & frozen …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Louis - Conn fight. Physical description of the contestants; past performance record; and their performance at this particular …
PROFILE of Joseph Curran, president of the National Maritime Union, the world's largest trade union of sailors. He's also a vice-president of the …
PROFILE of Joseph Curran, president of the National Maritime Union, the world's largest trade union of sailors. He's also a vice-president of the …
Profile of Joseph Curran, president of the National Maritime Union. Tells about his telephone conversation with Miss Perkins. Curran called a strike of …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Crow Villate. It was taken over by the Communists a few days after the Japanese surrendered. The organization was made …
PROFILE of Charles Prendergast, artist, and the greatest living maker of incised gesso panels, picture frames and chests. Tells about his famous brother …
PROFILE of Jean Delacour, the most distinguished aviculturist in the world. Early in this century, at a country place his family owned a …
PROFILE of Jean Delacour, the most distinguished aviculturist in the world. Early in this century, at a country place his family owned a …
FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about crossing the Atlantic on H.S. Transport Queen Mary. The ship carried about 500 service men, a conglomeration of Canadian, …
John Hersey’s 1946 piece exploring how six survivors experienced the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, and its aftermath.
Rebecca West’s 1946 report from the Nuremberg trials.
PROFILE of Agnes de Mille, dancer & choreographer. She has done the choreography for ballet numbers in several successful Bway shows, among them, …
PROFILE of Angelina Nawkins, a Salvation Army captain, tells about the life and work of a Salvation Army worker. The Army prescribes what its officers …
Profile of John F. Royal, vice-president of the N.B.C., who at one time managed vaudeville houses for the Keith Albee chain. One of the Keith headliners …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the squatter movement in London, engineered by Communists. Visit, description of the flats in Kensington Gardens; conversation with…
Reporter at Large about Michael Joseph Noone and the Gaelic Athletic Assiation's hurling teams. Hurling, one of the oldes Irish games, requires a high …
Benny Greenspan puts over a good deal for his client, Clyde Marshall, who had formerly been a drunk but was now reformed.
Rebecca West writes a dispatch from the Nuremberg trials in Germany in October, 1946.
Second Part of PROFILE of Frank Sinatra tells about his appeal to bobby sockers; their shenanigans; fan mail clubs, etc. The fans have always considered it…
Third part of PROFILE of Frank Sinatra deals with his humble beginning and his rise to fame. Born in Hoboke the only son of an Italian immigrant, Frank …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Federation of American Scientist lobbying-activities in Washington. Shortly before the destruction of Hiroshima, about 150 …
Profile of Howe & Hummel, criminal lawyers, 1869-1907. It seems to have been fairly common practice for prisoners where escaped from the Tombs, to rush to …
Berton Roueché on female night-club photographers in the nineteen-forties.
Profile of Howe & Hummel, criminal lawyers. The above named book was written by the two shyster lawyers.
Tells about the Augusta Nack-Martin Thorn murder of Willie Guldensuppe. Augusta was married to Herman Hack, who had stepped aside some years before in …
A short story, from 1946. A prep-school boy, home in N.Y. on vacation, rebels against boys' schools, and against life in general. He walks out on his girl when she refuses to …
REPORTER AT LARGE about dining with Mayor O'Dwyer. The Mayor recalled the days when he worked as a bartender at the Vanderbilt Hotel. Diamond Jim Brady…