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Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1951 issues.

52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: John Hersey (6)

Most featured section: Profiles

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THE BOTTOM OF THE HARBOR
Joseph Mitchell · Profiles · January 6

PROFILE of N. Y. Harbor and what's in, and on and under the water; marine life in the harbor, bays and inlets; species of fish that enter the harbor, …

Soldier in Mufti.
E. J. Kahn · Profiles · January 13

PROFILE of General Clay who ever since his celebrated occup tion of Germany has been a chaos-into-order man of global standing, and has for the past 5 …

THE LONELY TIME
Katharine T. Kinkead · A Reporter at Large · January 20

REPORTER AT LARGE about Youth Consultation Service, a private organization, to which unmarried girls can turn when they are faced with the ordeal of …

PRUDENT PIONEER
Robert Rice · Profiles · January 27

PROFILE of Allen Balcom Du Mont, founder & president of Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories, Inc., manufact rers of TV equipment. In 1931, Mr. Du Mont, a …

Grips and Taxes.
Andy Logan · Profiles · February 3

Profile of Vivien Kellems and her fight with the government over withholding taxes. In 1944, every Sunday night, for several weeks, Drew Pearson read on …

Grips and Taxes.
Andy Logan · Profiles · February 10

PROFILE of Vivien Kellems, cable grip manufacturer. Since 1940, the company has been a partnership, consisting of Miss Kellems and her youngest brother, …

Photograph Album; Man With A Rose
James Thurber · Fiction · February 17

The writer reminisces about his grandfather, William M. Fisher. He was a man who had all his teeth capped in gold and clamped the stem of a red rose …

THE ANGEL IN MAY
Alan Moorehead · Profiles · February 24

PROFILE of Angelo Poliziano, 15th-century poet, & favorite at the court of Lorenzo the Magnificent. Tells about his life & work; about the de Medici …

FIVE-STAR SCHOOLMASTER
A. J. Liebling · Profiles · March 3

PROFILE of General Omar Bradley. General Bradley was reminiscing about the North African campaign. In planning the campaign for the taking of a couple of …

FIVE-STAR SCHOOLMASTER
A. J. Liebling · Profiles · March 10

PROFILE of General Omar Nelson Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Asked point-blank, this year, whether he thought MacArthur should have been …

HOBOKEN MUST GO!
Andy Logan · Profiles · March 17

PROFILE of Wilma Soss, former publicity woman who gave up her press-agent career to devote her time to the Federation of Women Shareholders in American …

ONE-MAN LOBBY
Robert Shaplen · Profiles · March 24

PROFILE of Sirdar Jagjit Singh, the president of the India League of America, a privately supported, nonprofit organization that seeks to interpret India …

Chewies The Goat But Flicks Need Hypo
S. J. Perelman · Fiction · March 31

The writer, reading through "Variety", comes to the conclusion that the movies are doing badly. Possibly it is due to the pressure put on patrons to buy …

MR. PRESIDENT -- QUITE A HEAD OF STEAM
John Hersey · Profiles · April 7

PROFILE of President Truman. Dr. Graham, the Presiden physician, comes from Kansas City, & Mr. Truman has known his father all his life, but had never met …

MR. PRESIDENT: TEN O'CLOCK MEETING
John Hersey · Profiles · April 14

PROFILE OF President Truman tells about a morning staff meeting. Mr. Truman asked General Vaughan if he had anything to bring up. Vaughan seldom speaks at …

MR. PRESIDENT: FORTY-EIGHT HOURS.
John Hersey · Profiles · April 21

PROFILE of President Truman: Report on a typical working day in the President's life. Mr. Connelly, the President's Appointments Secretary, is the …

Mr. President: Ghosts in the White House.
John Hersey · Profiles · April 28

PROFILE of President Truman. Mr. Truman told about a chees some N.Y. State admirers sent to Pres. Andrew Jackson upon his retirement. They pressed a cheese…

MR. PRESIDENT: A WEIGHING OF WORDS
John Hersey · Profiles · May 5

PROFILE of President Truman. tells about a session he held with Dean Acheson & a number of his advisers & document drafters for a final going over of a …

THE PERFECT GLOW
Philip Hamburger · Profiles · May 12

PROFILE of Oscar Hammerstein II. Hammerstein and Logan wrote the book for "South Pacific" at Hammerstein's farm in Bucks County. Logan is nochturnal, …

THE PERFECT GLOW.
Philip Hamburger · Profiles · May 19

PROFILE of Oscar Hammerstein II. Tells something about the careers of his father William Hammerstein, and about his grandfather Oscar Hammerstein I. Willie…

THE ALMIGHTY BUCK
Lillian Ross · Profiles · May 26

PROFILE of Abraham Ellis, the Hat-Check King. Ellis has some 300 girls working for him in the 25 night clubs & restaurants in which he holds concessions. …

THE SEA: UNFORGOTTEN WORLD
Rachel Carson · Profiles · June 2

PROFILE of the Sea: The Sargasso Sea is so different from any part of the earth that it can be considered a definite geographic region. A line drawn from …

THE SEA: THE ABYSS.
Rachel Carson · Profiles · June 9

PROFILE of the Sea: Tells about the layers of sediment on the floor of the ocean. In the shallower parts of the open Atlantic, there are patches of ooze …

The Sea: Wind, Sun, and Moon
Rachel Carson · Profiles · June 16

PROFILE OF THE SEA The first chart of the Gulf Stream was prepared about 1769, under the direction of Benjamin Franklin, while he was Deputy Postmaster …

Princess Elizabeth, Heiress Apparent
Mollie Panter-Downes · Letter from London · June 23

Mollie Panter-Downes reports from London on the Trooping of the Colour ceremony, in 1951, and its outstanding figure, Princess Elizabeth on horseback: “the lone apex of an otherwise massively masculine show.”

Boxing With The Naked Eye.
A. J. Liebling · A Reporter at Large · June 30

REPORTER AT LARGE, about attending the Joe Louis-Lee Savold boxing match, at Madison Square Garden. A taxi-driver recalls the night Louis fought Carnera. …

No. 221 B
Mollie Panter-Downes · A Reporter at Large · July 7

REPORTER AT LARGE about an exhibit, which is a Festival of Britain project, of Sherlock Holmes's personal belongings and various other objects …

FOR CITY AND COTY
Geoffrey T. Hellman · Profiles · July 14

PROFILE of Grover Whalen, the city's official greeter for distinguished guests. Whalen has a number of medals. O'Dwyer presented him with a …

FOR CITY AND FOR COTY
Geoffrey T. Hellman · Profiles · July 21

PROFILE OF Grover A. Whalen, chairman of the board of Coty, Inc., and Coordinator of Recruiting & Public Information of the N. Y. C. Office of Civil …

SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY
Berton Roueché · A Reporter at Large · July 28

REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the chemical plant of Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc., one of the largest of all producer of penicillin & streptomycin, & …

LINKSLAND AND MEADOWLAND
Herbert Warren Wind · Profiles · August 4

PROFILE of Robert Trent Jones, golf-course architect, tells about the collaboration between the Canadian golf course architect, Stanley Thomas and Mr. …

Man of Means.
E. J. Kahn · Profiles · August 11

PROFILE of John Hay (Jock) Whitney. Joan Whitney, John Hay's sisted married in 1924, Charles Shipman Payson. Mrs Payson shared equally with her brother…

MAN OF MEANS
E. J. Kahn · Profiles · August 18

PROFILE of John Hay (Jock) Whitney. He worked as a buzzer boy at Lee, Higginson & Co., at a salary of sixty-five a month. Mr. Whitney stayed a year, ending…

Goodbye, My Brother
John Cheever · Fiction · August 25

Fiction, from 1951: “He could make a grievance out of anything, and it sometimes seemed that as he sat darkly at the dinner table, every word of disparagement, wherever it was aimed, came home to him.”

Master of Before and After.
Andy Logan · Profiles · September 1

PROFILE of Valentino Sarra, commercial photographer. Sarra's two patrons were Edward Steichen and Lejaren 'a Hiller. Hiller had started work as an …

REMEMBER THEIR FACES, PUT DOWN THEIR NAMES
Joseph Wechsberg · A Reporter at Large · September 8

REPORTER AT LARGE about an interview with Dr. Theo Friedenau, Chairman of the Investigation Comm. of Freedom-Minded Jurists in the Soviet Zone, an …

TWO AUTHORS IN AN ATTIC
Robert Lewis Taylor · Profiles · September 15

PROFILE of John Dickson Carr, mystery novel writer. History of the field. Poe launched the modern detective story by his "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," …

Love, Death and the Ladies' Drill Team
Jessamyn West · Fiction · September 22

A group of women of Los Roblos, Calif. meet over a hardware store for a session of the Ladies' Drill team. Emily Cooper, the newest member, was first …

The Days of Duveen
S. N. Behrman · Profiles · September 29

S. N. Behrman’s 1951 Profile of the legendary art dealer Joseph Duveen, whose clients included J. P. Morgan, Henry Clay Frick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and others.

THE DAYS OF DUVEEN: A BEGINNING IN DELFT
S. N. Behrman · Profiles · October 6

PROFILE OF Lord Duvene, art dealer. Joseph's uncle Henry, had opened a shop in Maiden Lane. One day, Benjamin Altman, the department-store magnate …

The Days of Duveen: A Brisk Market in Immortality
S. N. Behrman · Profiles · October 13

Profile of Lord Joseph Duveen. Since Duveen's death, one of the sunniest of the commentators on him and his era has been Mrs. William Randolph Hearst. …

THE DAYS OF DUVEEN: IV.-B. B.
S. N. Behrman · Profiles · October 20

Fourth part of Lord Joseph Duveen PROFILE deals with the life & work of Bernard Berenson, Duveen's adviser on Italian Old Masters. Mr. B., a graduate …

THE BLUE BOY AND TWO LAVINIAS
S. N. Behrman · Profiles · October 27

PROFILE of Lord Joseph Duveen, the art dealer. One of his clients was Arabella Duval Yarrington, who first married Collis Huntington, and after his death …

The Days of Duveen: The Silent Men
S. N. Behrman · Profiles · November 3

Part 6 of S. N. Behrman’s Profile of the legendary art dealer Joseph Duveen, whose clients included J. P. Morgan, Henry Clay Frick, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and others.

Letter from Libya
Joseph Wechsberg · Letter from Libya · November 10

Libya, former Italian colony, will become an independent federal state according to a declaration of the United Nations, not later than Jan., 1952. There …

BROKEN FIGHTER ARRIVES
A. J. Liebling · A Reporter at Large · November 17

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Joe Louis-Rocky Marciano fight Visit to Rocky's training camp at Greenwood Lake. An ancient featherweight champion, Abe …

THE INGATHERING OF THE EXILES.
John Hersey · A Reporter at Large · November 24

REPORTER AT LARGE about the State of Israel. The 50,000 Jew living in the Yemen at the end of World War II, constituted one of the most ancient Jewish …

Photograph Album; Man With A Pipe
James Thurber · Fiction · December 1
Big Operator.
E. J. Kahn · Profiles · December 8

PROFILE of William Zeckendorf, president and sole stockholder in the real estate firm of Webb & Knapp, tells about the property Zeckendorf acquired and …

H. W. Ross
E. B. White · Comment · December 15

E. B. White’s 1951 obituary of The New Yorker editor, Harold Ross: “He wanted the magazine to be good, to be funny, and to be fair.”

Henri Matisse’s Revolutionary Colors
Janet Flanner · Profiles · December 22

Part 1 of Janet Flanner’s 1951 Profile of Matisse discusses the the painter’s leadership of the Fauvism movement and his relationship to Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein.

How War Changed the Way We See Matisse
Janet Flanner · Profiles · December 29

Part 2 of Janet Flanner’s 1951 Profile of the painter discusses his rise to popularity following the First World War, his series of female figures, and his work on the Chapelle du Rosaire.

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