Memories of White Russia during the writer's youth. He recalls reenacting, with his cousin, the Wild West fiction of Capt. Mayne Reid, an American …
Best New Yorker Articles of 1949
Explore 53 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1949 issues.
53 picks · 53 issues · Top author: Lillian Ross (5)
Most featured section: Profiles
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From 1949: Fred Keefe and Geoffrey T. Hellman chronicle the French writer and director Jean Cocteau’s visit to New York to attend the Manhattan première of his film “The Eagle with Two Heads.”
Profile of Frank Emerson Denison, chief grader and blender of tea of Henry P. Thomson, Inc., the largest tea-importing firm in New York City and one of the…
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Norway to look up some of the members of the crew of the Chr. Th. Boe, a tanker, on which Mr. Liebling was aboard when …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Arendal, homeport of Chr. Th. Boe, a tanker on which author sailed in the winte of 1942. Many of the crew members were …
The writer received, as a gift, a copy of "Esar's Comic Dictionary" which has turned him into an unpleasant cynic. He quotes sample definitions from …
A meeting of all distinguished individuals who have endorsed products in advertisements in 1948 is called. As each member is mentioned the product he …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the James P. Caffreys, a substantial family of Wakefield, R. I., who won the $24,000 jackpot on the "Sing It Again" program. …
Profile of Countess Mara, Mrs. Malcolm D. Whitman, who incorporated herself as a cravateer, and a countess, in 1938. Tells about her necktie business, …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Sag Harbor & its famous church, designed by Minard Lafever. The church, which lost its steeple in the hurricane of '38, was …
Profile of Sidney Franklin. Franklin who is now forty-five estimates that he has killed 2,000 bulls so far. Last winter in Mexico, he killed 13. He's …
PROFILE OF Sidney Franklin, the bullfighter. History of bullfighting, early masters of the bullring, Guerrita, Joselito, Belmonte, Gaona and Manolete. …
PROFILE of Sidney Franklin, the Brooklyn-born matador He was the fifth of ten children born to Abram and Lubba Frumkin, both natives of Russia. They …
Cahill, a 40 year old college philosophy teacher, arrives home at 1 AM and finds a message to call Joe Reeves, a colleague and friend of his. Since it is …
PROFILE of Andrew Gunnar Hagstrom, founder & president of the Hatstrom Co., of 20 Vesey St., a map-making concern who lists more than 150 maps, guides & …
Talk story about Joshua Logan, co-author, co-producer and director of "South Pacific." Interviewed during evening preview. He hoped he'd remember to …
Profile of the Flying Concellos-Arthur & Antoinette, husband and wife-the best known aerial trapeze artists in the world. Arthur Concello is the general …
Profile of the Flying Concellos-Arthur & Antoinette, husband and wife-the best known aerial-trapeze artists in the world The couple stopped flying in …
Profile of John Sloan, the artist. He began his career as an artist as a painter of greeting cards. Later, as a staff artist on the Philadelphia Press, he …
The writer thinks about his first trip to Europe in 1927, and rereads a best seller of that time: "The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars" by Maurice Dekobra. …
A REPORTER AT LARGE about William W. Remington a Dept. of Commerce economist who was accused by Elizabeth Bentley of being a Communist and of having given …
PROFILE of Mrs. Dione Wilson Lucas who runs the Cordo Bleu Cooking School and Restaurant at 117 E. 60th St. In the restaurant her specialty is preparing …
Profile of Thomas David Henrich, left-handed right fielder and reserve first baseman for the N.Y. Yankees. He is 33, and beginning his 13th season with the…
PROFILE of Robert J. Flaherty whose current film "Louisiana Story" has provoked cheers from the critics, who's mission in the movie field has been to …
In his 1949 review, Lionel Trilling writes that George Orwell’s “1984” is about a state power that was coercing, not cosseting, its citizens into soullessness.
PROFILE OF Robert J. Flaherty, maker of documentary films. With Frederick Murnau, the German director, Flaherty went to Tahiti in 1929 & made the film …
The writer deplores the devices used by authors to give a foreign flavor to their books. Sometimes the characters who are foreign speak with an accent …
PROFILE of a Monte Carlo croupier, Gaston Raymond an of the Casino. It was founded in 1858, at the request of Prince Charles III of Monaco. The first …
Profile of Rex Stout in whose detective novels the leading character is Nero Wolfe, a fat detective. Nero Wolfe is a curiously elegant and luminous talker …
A. J. Liebling writes about the windup of the Alger Hiss trial in 1949.
James Thurber imagines the plight of the American writer.
Profile of Wilmarth S. Lewis, a Yale graduate and Yale Trustee, who has become the world's outstanding authority on, collector of, and promoter of …
Profile of Wilmarth S. Lewis, a Yale graduate and Yale Trustee, who has become the world's outstanding authority on, collector of, and promoter of …
BOOKS review of John O’Hara’s “A Rage to Live and Mary McCarthy’s “The Oasis.”
ANNALS OF CRIME about counterfeit money and counterfeiters There was a shortage of both genuine and counterfeit money in early Colonial times, whereas …
ANNALS OF CRIME about Edward Mueller, or Old Eight-Eighty, tells about other counterfeiters. Edward John Wellman, an Estonian, was a counterfeiter of …
ANNALS OF CRIME about counterfeiters. The most sought-after counterfeiter there has ever been in this country was one called OldEight Eighty by the Secret …
Fiction, from 1949: “The noise of the tree was worse than any known human noise, because of that frightening, toneless, throatless quality.”
Profile of Everett Joshua Edwards, a 78-year-old retired shore whaler, of East Hampton, L.I. Mr. Edwards was born in Amagansett, which his ancestors helped…
PROFILE of Lawrence Langner, co-director of the Theatre Guild. In 1915, the forerunner of the Guild, a group called the Washington Square Players, rented …
PROFILE of Frank Safford, one of the most successful of the country's trainers & drivers of harness horses. Last year, at Roosevelt Raceway, he won 76 …
Lillian Ross writes about tagging along with Miss New York and other beauty queens to the 1949 Miss America Pageant.
Reporter at Large about a coon-dog field trial, in Southington, Conn. Mike Izzo, a grocer in New Haven, is the owner of Indiana Trigger, a dog that has a …
Reporter at Large about the Duggan family, of Wapping, who were bombed out three times during the war. Their first house was wrecked by a high-explosive …
Profile of Secretary of State, Dean Gooderham Acheson. When he graduated from the Harvard Law School, Felix Frank furter, who was then teaching at Harvard,…
Reporter at Large about an 800-mile trip-Terre Haute-N.Y.C. in the cab of a tractor-trailer truck, owned by Eastern Motor Express, of Terre Haute. The …
An account of the last days of Emma Boynton, an eccentric cousin of the writer's grandmother. She was a distinguishes old lady who had taught Greek and…
REPORTER AT LARGE about Poona cheese, invented and made by Mrs. Kent Leavitt, of Fraleigh Farm, Dutchess County. Many consider it one of the most admirable…
Fiction, from 1949: “Seen through the carefully wiped lenses of time, the beauty of her face is as near as ever and as glowing.”
PROFILE of Edward T. Townsend, game warden of Westchester County. The greatest problem of Townsend's career was the crow-invasion of the winter of …
A classic short story by John Cheever, chronicling an apartment-building elevator operator’s Christmas Day at work.
REPORTER AT LARGE about N. Y. City's water systems, past & present, & about the current water shortage. In 1796, th legislature chartered a private …