Profile of Henry Jonas Rosenfeld, millionaire dress manufacturer and Wonder Boy of Seventh Avenue. Rosenfeld's second-in-command is Paul Hershcopf, …
Best New Yorker Articles of 1950
Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1950 issues.
52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: S. J. Perelman (4)
Most featured section: Profiles
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PROFILE of Henry Jonas Rosenfeld, 38-year-old millionaire dress manufacturer. Since he was six years old, Henry's goal has been to become a …
Profile of Congressman Jacob K. Javits, of the 21st Congressional District, a predominantly Jewish district, with some Catholics and Negroes sprinkled …
Profile of Jacob K. Javits, Representative of the 21st Congressional District. He has served 3 years in Congress and b been asked during that time to …
The writer recalls how afraid of teachers he was until Wallace came along. Wallace was a genius according to tests and he never bothered to study. Instead …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the Silverbrook Art Glass Works, Silverbrook. L. I. The factory is owned and operated by three brothers, Frank, Henry, &…
REPORTER AT LARGE about Joseph Apperson, a 22-year-old, typical Times Square Kid. He was born in Bklyn of poor but respectable parents. As a youngster he …
PROFILE of Wilson Mizner. When he died in 1933, he was Broadway's leading wit, a successful playwright & confidence man. But years before that, he had …
THE SKY LINE about upper-class apartments in New York City.
The writer demonstrates what a strange place New York is by relating some coincidences and unusual accidents that have taken place. Then he tells a story …
The writer's grandfather tells how the detached collar was invented in Troy. An irate ironmonger's wife, Mrs. Montague, who was tired of washing an…
The story of the murder of 46-year-old Ozma Beserk who worked in a Long Island fish market. Only her head was found. After 4 years of detective work the …
REPORTER AT LARGE, about a cockfight held somewhere in Connecticut. The fight was staged in the cellar of a farmhouse and the main event of the evening was…
Janet Flanner’s 1950 Letter from Rome telling of the journalistic excitement stirred up by the birth of Ingrid Bergman’s baby.
Fiction, from 1950: Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me.
Profile of Dr. Alexander Petrunkevitch, a retired Yale professor who probably knows more about spiders than anyone else in the world. Nobody has any idea …
PROFILE of Dr. Alexander Petrunkevitch, an emeritus professor of zoology at Yale. Several years after he joined the faculty he met Ivan Pavlov, the great …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Coldstream Stud Farm, a few miles outside of Lexington, Ky. The farm, which is owned by Elmer Ellsworth Dale Shaffer, is about …
Lillian Ross’s 1950 Profile of Ernest Hemingway, the author of “The Sun Also Rises” and other books.
REPORTER AT LARGE about a trip over the Tatsienlu road from the city of Yaan to Tatsienlu, the capital of China's Sikang Province. The country beyond …
Profile of Branch Rickey, Sr., president, manager and one-quarter owner of the Brooklyn National League Baseball Club. His son Branch Rickey, Jr., is the …
Second part of Profile of Branch Rickey, the president, general manager, and one-fourth owner of the Brooklyn Natl Baseball Club, a 68-year-old Methodist, …
PROFILE of Dr. Martin Gumpert, a practitioner of geriatrics, the branch of medicine dealing with old age. He tries to fire the dormant minds of the elderly…
PROFILE of Dr. Martin Gumpert, the best-known practitioner of geriatrics - the field of medicine dealing with the ills of old age. Dr. Gumpert, who was …
Reporter at Large about a visit to a lecture-dance at the Fellowship Forum which meet Sunday nights at the Fraternal Clubhouse on West 48 St. The subject …
PROVILE of Walter S. Mack, Jr., a chairman of the board of the Pepsi-Cola Co. Coca-Cola & Pepsi account for 90% of the cola drink business in the U. S. …
Reporter at Large about a few days spent on the Mississippi River and two of its tributaries, during a flood. The writer was staying at Marianna, a …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the attempt to gather members of the 1924 class of the Moravski Ostrava Gymnasium to a reunion in Prague, in 1950. Of the 39 …
Some of the music and lyrics for Michael Todd's revue "Peep Show" were written by Bhumibol, King of Thailand. This inspires the writer to do an …
At a summer colony the children between the ages of 8 and 10 are very mischevious. Their mothers get together over cocktails and decide to hire a college …
The author takes excerpts from the New York Times and from an article by Brian P. Flanagan, M.C., in the Current Medical Digest for March. The former to …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Dr. Aleksander W. Rudzinski, the Polish delegate to the U.N. who, on orders from the Kremlin walked out. An hour later he resigned …
A REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Granada, in search of the grave of Federico García Lorca, the poet, who was shot as a Red during the first days of …
Profile of Dr. Sidney Dillon Ripley II, one of the countrys outstanding authorities on, and collectors of birds of the Far East. Although he holds the …
Reporter at Large about a swimming race across the Block Island Sound from Mautnuck Beach to Block Island, a distance of 13,7 miles. One of the contestants…
The writer re-reads "Wife of the Centaur" by Cyril Hume, which he originally read 20 years ago while a student at Brown University. He burns anew at its …
PROFILE of Ninette de Valois, the director of the Sadler's Wells Ballet. In 1923, her dancing teacher, Enrico Cecohetti, insisted that she try out at a…
REPORTER AT LARGE about Karel Janda family, of Prague, mother, father, an 18-year-old son, and a 12-year-old daughter. The family was in comfortable …
The writer recollects reading books about Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer, as an adolescent. He was badly frightened by them. He discovers his young daughter …
REPORTER AT LARGE about observing the Lord Mayor of West Berlin, Ernst Reuter at work. Background of the city's administration; and what has been …
E. B. White imagines how Hemingway would describe a visit to a restaurant.
PROFILE of Bernarr Macfadden, publisher & physical culturist. An article written by John Russell Coryell, who also wrote detective stories under the name …
PROFILE of Barnarr Macfadden, health-faddist & publisher of among other publications, the Evening Graphic, a tabloid newspaper, started in 1924, the year …
Bernard Taper’s account of his 1950 visit with the imprisoned photographer Heinrich Hoffman, who took thousands of pictures of his friend Adolf Hitler during the Third Reich. “Hitler was not an easy person to photograph,” Hoffmann said.
REPORTER AT LARGE describing the Basque method of hunting the wild pigeon. The birds nest in northern Europe and fly south in the fall. They fly fairly …
The writer tells about her friends Claire and Richard who live in a primitive wilderness in Northern California. They make everything they need and grow …
PROFILE of Toots Shor, prop. of the restaurant by the same name, which some of its patrons have called The Temple of Friendship. The members of the Shorian…
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to two of Harry Pack' 32 chicken farms in Dagsbury, in Sussex County, Dela. Pack, the son of a Jewish immigrant, who …
They are hallowed out in the see coast at the municipal terminal of Capdepera, at 9 kilometer from the town of Arta in the Island of Mallorca...with a …
When Mr. Bartlett was a reporter on a Portland, Maine, newspaper, he interviewed Calvin Coolidge. In 1932, on the editorial staff of a farm magazine, he …
PROFILE of Wilson Mizner covering his playwriting phase. In 1911, he was not only box-office success; he was also the center of an intellectual disturbance…
PROFILE of Wilson Mizner.