Profile of Ellery Franklin Thompson, a dragger captain of Stonington, Connecticut. Stonington and Fulton Fish Market are closely linked. Several of the …
Best New Yorker Articles of 1947
Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1947 issues.
52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: Philip Hamburger (5)
Most featured section: Profiles
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PROFILE of dragger captain Ellery Franklin Thompson tells about Old Chrissy, an old rascal of a woman that was the head of a gang of Block Island wreckers.…
Profile of Frank Stanton, president of the C.B.S. Tells about his research in the field of radio audience listening habits and reaction; and about a …
Profile of Frank Stanton, Ph.D., president of the C.B.S. Tells about his research in the field of radio audience listening habits and reaction; about a …
Profile of William O'Rourke, a U.S. Diplomatic Courier, who during the car carried dispatches to and from Foreign service stations abroad. History of …
Profile of Arthur Simon Meyer, chairman of the N.Y. State Board of Mediation. Meyer spent three months on the Little Steel case, as chairman of the …
Reporter at Large about Paul Friesner's buckeye shop, the La Central Cigar Corporation, 305 W. 39th St. A buckeye is a shop in which cigars are made by…
Janet Flanner on how the Fuhrer, aided by a group of art-pillaging Nazis, became the biggest, fastest collector of art in modern times.
A guest at a cocktail party is introduced to the editor of a literary review, Mr. Peifer. They get into an involved conversation regarding middle-aged …
Terry, aged five, adores Madge his aunt, who promises to take him to England when she marries Mr. Walker. He waits and waits for this to happen. Finally, …
Profile of James William Johnson, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Third District of N.Y., which includes most of Manhattan Island. Mr. Johnson, a …
A young mother wheels her baby home in the late afternoon. Then she gets herself and dinner ready for a couple of guests, while her husband prepares …
Profile of Al Rosen, Hollywood agent, and a new genius of the threatre. Rosen has been much written about by a great Abraham Lincoln scholar-Lloyd Lewis, …
PROFILE of Norman Corwin (written in the style of a script for a radio drama). Chronology of his life & accomplishments. Born in Boston, May 3, 1910, …
Reporter at Large about a visit to the Hyde Park Historic Site and Library, and also a visit to Mrs. Roosevelt's cottage at Val Kill. It is located …
Reporter at Large about Jury service: Speaks of the baffling problem of getting the right jury; the examination of jurors; does a jury from prejudice …
PROFILE of Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret) the French architect, exponent of modern architecture & a member of the U. N. Headquarter's …
PROFILE of Le Corbusier, the French architect. He expressed his thoughts about America to a friend recently, and on N. Y. "New York is a turntable where …
Profile of James. E. Casey, the president of the United Parcel Service, and history of the business, which Casey founded at the age of fifteen in Seattle, …
REPORTER AT LARGE about what is being done in the way of finding underground sites for shelters, factories & warehouses in case of an atomic war. As yet, …
In 1947, New York City’s health commissioner, Dr. Israel Weinstein, denied the “crackpot” rumors about the smallpox vaccination, which rolled out to more than six million New Yorkers over the course of a month.
PROFILE of Reuben Maury, chief editorial writer for the News since 1926, and editorial writer for Collier's since 1938. In Collier's editorials, he…
REPORTER AT LARGE about having to spend a night in Minsk. Having heard of the inconveniences suffered by other travellers who had to spend a night there, …
Rebecca West on a 1947 lynching trial in Greenville, South Carolina.
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Newburyport, Mass., where the celebrated Newburyport Plan originated. According to the desk clerk at the Garrison Inn, …
PROFILE of Max Sherover, president of the Linguaphone Inst of America, Inc., tells about the Institute's foreign language courses; about well-known …
PROFILE of Charles Fountain Willis, Jr., founder & president of the Willis Air Service, Inc., an air-freight line with the Teterboro Airport as …
REPORTER AT LARGE about N. Y. C. Budget. When the City Council Finance Comm. presented the budget to the Council meeting and reported that it had no …
Profile of Dr. William J. Robbins, the director of the N.Y. Botanical Garden. Dr. Robbins is physiological mycologist, or a student of the behavior of …
Profile of Leon Milton Birkhead, national director of propaganda for Friends of Democracy. One of Friends of Democracy most fruitful accomplishments has …
PROFILE of Leon Milton Birkhead, head of Friends of Democracy, Inc. Tyler Kent, a U.S. foreign service man, during the war, convicted of selling military …
Poetry by Elizabeth Bishop, from 1947: “Cold dark deep and absolutely clear, / element bearable to no mortal.”
REPORTER AT LARGE about District Attorney of Manhattan, Frank S. Hogan and his office. Hogan succeeded Dewey in 1942 and is now in his second term. His …
PROFILE OF JOHN GUNTHER. Mr. Gunther happened to say in "Inside Latin America," that he had been quite favorably impressed by a local statesman named Galo …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a new disease, rickettsialpox, o which over a hundred cases appeared in Regnecy Park, L.I. The first victim was 11-year-old Edmund…
PROFILE of William W. Smith 11, & Robert Lansing Smith, of Smith Brothers Cough Drops. All the employees grew beards for the centennial. Mr. Shaw and Mr. …
REPORTER AT LARGE about an interview with Kurt Maier, a Czech Jew arriving in New York under the category of displaced Persons. Maier is a professional …
PROFILE of Bobby Clark. During Clark's circus days, he indoctrinated a young clown, Johnny Trip, to function as his stooge.
Profile of Bobby Clark. The team of Clark and McCullough first appeared in vaudeville on Dec. 2, 1912, at the Opera House in New Brunswick, N.J. For some …
Jack Lorey knew Joan Harris from their home town in Ohio. They met when they both came to New York. This is the story of how Joan, who always appeared …
PROFILE of Trygve Lie, the Secretary-General of the U. N. Lie was born in a suburb of Oslo, Jul. 16, 1896, the son of a carpenter, who deserted his family …
PROFILE of Trygve Lie, the Secretary-General of the U. N. Lie was born in a suburb of Oslo, Jul. 16, 1896, the son of a carpenter, who deserted his family …
Profile of Dr. Emery Andrew Rovenstine, director of the Dept. of Anesthesia at Bellevue Hospital. He is considered by many surgeons and other medicalmen …
Profile of Dr. Emery Andrew Rovenstine, director of the Dept. of Anesthesia at Bellevue Hospital. He is considered by many surgeons and other medicalmen …
Profile of Dr. Emery Andrew Rovenstine, director of the Dept. of Anesthesia at Bellevue Hospital. He is considered by many surgeons and other medicalmen …
PROFILE of Jacob Buchter, chief electrician at the Met. Opera House. The stagehands are grateful to Buchter, for it was in their interest that he improved …
Niccolò Tucci writes about paying a personal visit to Albert Einstein.
Reporter at Large about a visit to the Hudson Valley Wine Company winery, south of the village of Highland, in Ulster County. The company is owned and …
A. J. Liebling on the New York press’s coverage of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth to Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
Wolcott Gibbs reviews Tennessee Williams’ play “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the Brookhaven National Laboratory, a research center to concern itself with the peaceful uses of atomic energy. The …
Angelica Gibbs’s Profile of the dancer and choreographer Martha Graham and the founding of her infamous Greenwich Village studio.