Best New Yorker Articles of 1948
Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1948 issues.
52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: Geoffrey T. Hellman (5)
Most featured section: Profiles
Featured Picks
PROFILE of Bernard Baruch. Speaks of his unwillingness to give financial advice. This reticense is partly the result of an unfortunate experience he had in…
Profile of Bernard Baruch. While Miss Higgins acted as nurse for Mr. Baruch, he had to undergo an operation for an ulcer. When Miss Higgins reported the …
When the author's father died his mother was inconsolable with grief - a passionate woman who had lost her lover. Her two sons fetched her old girlhood…
A young man, recently returned from the Army goes to Florida with his wife. His wife has a telephone conversation with her mother during which the mother …
Profile of Percy Grainger, pianist and composer. His published compositions number about 400 and he has written at leas as many more that are yet …
PROFILE of Percy Grainger. In '32, he became head of the music department of. N. Y. U. for one year. He exploded on N. Y. U. like a bombshell. Grainger…
Fiction by Jean Stafford, from 1948: “If the sight of someone so peripheral, so uninvolving as Alfred Eisenburg could scare her so badly, what would a cocktail party do?”
PROFILE of Eugene O'Neill. His father, James O'Neill, starred in such dramas as "A Celebrated Case," "Two Orphans and "David Garrick." In 1872, …
PROFILE of Eugene O'Neill, author of 38 plays. In 1920, only four years after the Providence players gave "Bound East for Cardiff," one of his first …
Reporter at Large about gout. Although gout cannot be cure the severity of its periodic attacks can be lessened and their duration greatly shortened by …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Atomic Energy Commission, now a federal bureau under the Chairmanship of David Lilienthal and four Commissioners, tells of the …
PROFILE of Henry Blackman Sell, maker of Sell's Liver Pate & other canned meat products. Sell got into the meat business seven years ago, after …
PROFILE of Henry Blackman Sell, who in the course of the past 30 years has been quite a figure in literary criticism, interior decoration, advertising, …
PROFILE of Henry Blackman Sell, now president of Sell's Specialties, Inc., canned meat products. This last year he has been working with zeal on his …
H. L. Mencken on the author of “Sister Carrie,” “An American Tragedy,” and other books.
PROFILE of Richard Olney Hart, boss of the Empire State Bldg. window cleaners. Hart does the top-most, or 102nd floor. None of the six men who work with …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the massacre at Lidice, the destruction of the city by the Germans. Of the village's 500 inhabitants, 192 men & boys were shot,…
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the DeWitt W. Nichols farm, one of the biggest and most generally esteemed producers of maple syrup in upstate New York.…
Short story about an aged Russian couple going to pay their insane son a visit on his birthday.
PROFILES of Mrs. Margaret Rudkin, president of a baking firm called Pepperidge Farm Inc. One thing that can be said of Pepperidge bread is that it will not…
Talk interview with Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of Council of Government of new state of Israel, & presumptive first president of that state. Weizmann …
Berton Roueché on a mysterious case of cyanosis—a type of poisoning so rare that, before 1948, only ten previous outbreaks of it had been recorded in medical literature.
Part 1 of E. J. Kahn’s 1948 Profile of F.D.R.’s widow discusses her impeccable diplomacy as the first woman to represent the U.S. as a delegate to the United Nations.
Part 2 of E. J. Kahn’s 1948 Profile of President Roosevelt’s widow discusses her international travels and her work as chairman of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
Fiction, from 1948: “The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions; most of them were quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around.”
PROFILE of Dizzy Gillespie, a Negro trumpet player and one of the founders of a new school of jazz called Bebop. Many Negro boppers like to pretend that …
Reporter: Visit to Cremona, Italy, home of Antonio Stradivari, celebrated 16th century violinmaker. Renzo Bacchetta, a professor at the Scuola …
PROFILE of Dr. Samuel J. Crumbine, who at 85 is the nation most relentless worker in public health. In his early years he practiced medicine in Dodge City,…
REPORTER AT LARGE About the White Sands Proving Grounds & experiments with rockets. The U.S. Army captured 100 2-v rockets at Nordhausen & was also able to…
Reporter at Large about the launching of a V-2 rocket, one of the 100 the U.S. Array captured at Nordhausen. For the moment all that is being done with the…
Reporter at Large about Fascist and Communist demonstratio in London. Frederic Mullally, one speaker at a Communist meeting, is not a Communist. He is a …
A. J. Liebling on the predictability of the 1948 Presidential Conventions and their press coverage (“much like reading a surefire play of which one already knows the plot”).
PROFILE of Dr. Andrey Avinoff, a Russian lepidopterist and painter. Dr. Karl Jordan, the curator of the entomological Dept. of Rotschild's Museum in …
Sometimes our affection for N.Y. becomes dulled by familiarity. No building seems high, no subway miraculous no avenue enchanted - al, all commonplace. …
Profile of Walter Francis White, a fair-skinned Negro, who is secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, an organization …
Profile of Walter Francis White, a fair-skinned Negro, who is secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, an organization …
Reporter at Large about the Radium Chemical Co., a firm that has sold something like 3/4ths of the radium used in this country. The company was founded in …
The writer recalls giving a lecture at a Women's City Club in Texas. Her introduction to the audience is delayed by numerous interruptions. By the time…
A list of the cliches used by tabloid newspaper writers recounting the news of murder, love, and other events of violence.
Profile of Lou Little, the head coach of football at Columbia University. College football is a peculiar combination of chicanery, big business, and …
PROFILE of William Rabkin, owner and president of the International Mutoscope Corp., manufacturer of coin-operated amusement machines. The Mutoscope is a …
Talk: Interview with Norman Mailer, author of "The Naked and the Dead." Mailer is twenty-five. He entered Harvard at the age of sixteen. In his sophomore …
PROFILE of Jo Mielziner, the stage designer. One of the One of the house-lovely magazines not long ago asked him to write an article treating stage design …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Gundel's Restaurant in Budapest, owned and run by Charles Gundel, a 65-year-old Budapestian who has contributed more to the …
Profile of Alfred CArl Fuller, founder of the Fuller Brush Co. Fuller, an ardent Christian Scientist, was born in Nova Scotia. His forebears came from …
Profile of Alfred A Knopf. Tells about his satorial tastes the appearance of his books, design, type, etc. Mentiones a number of Knopf authors, his pride …
A 1948 Profile of the book publisher Alfred A. Knopf. “Knopf enjoys complaining. Among his permanent grievances are the idiocy of most publishers, including himself.”
Profile of Alfred A Knopf. Tells about his satorial tastes the appearance of his books, design, type, etc. Mentiones a number of Knopf authors, his pride …
Profile of Lewis D. Gilbert, crusader for minority stockholders, who for the past 15 years has devoted all his time to attend stockholders, meetings. For …
PROFILE of Lewis D. Gilbert, crusader for small stockholders. In 1937 he suggested that Bethlehem Steel retire Chares M. Schwab, who was then chairman of …
As a high school senior in the Shanghai American School the writer was the principal for one day - Student Government Day. He was allowed to exercise the …