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, …
Best New Yorker Articles of 1951
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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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 …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Youth Consultation Service, a private organization, to which unmarried girls can turn when they are faced with the ordeal of …
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 …
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 …
PROFILE of Vivien Kellems, cable grip manufacturer. Since 1940, the company has been a partnership, consisting of Miss Kellems and her youngest brother, …
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 …
PROFILE of Angelo Poliziano, 15th-century poet, & favorite at the court of Lorenzo the Magnificent. Tells about his life & work; about the de Medici …
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 …
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 …
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 …
PROFILE of Sirdar Jagjit Singh, the president of the India League of America, a privately supported, nonprofit organization that seeks to interpret India …
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 …
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 …
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 …
PROFILE of President Truman: Report on a typical working day in the President's life. Mr. Connelly, the President's Appointments Secretary, is the …
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…
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 …
PROFILE of Oscar Hammerstein II. Hammerstein and Logan wrote the book for "South Pacific" at Hammerstein's farm in Bucks County. Logan is nochturnal, …
PROFILE of Oscar Hammerstein II. Tells something about the careers of his father William Hammerstein, and about his grandfather Oscar Hammerstein I. Willie…
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.”
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. …
REPORTER AT LARGE about an exhibit, which is a Festival of Britain project, of Sherlock Holmes's personal belongings and various other objects …
PROFILE of Grover Whalen, the city's official greeter for distinguished guests. Whalen has a number of medals. O'Dwyer presented him with a …
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 …
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, & …
PROFILE of Robert Trent Jones, golf-course architect, tells about the collaboration between the Canadian golf course architect, Stanley Thomas and Mr. …
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…
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…
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.”
PROFILE of Valentino Sarra, commercial photographer. Sarra's two patrons were Edward Steichen and Lejaren 'a Hiller. Hiller had started work as an …
REPORTER AT LARGE about an interview with Dr. Theo Friedenau, Chairman of the Investigation Comm. of Freedom-Minded Jurists in the Soviet Zone, an …
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," …
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 …
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.
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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.
Libya, former Italian colony, will become an independent federal state according to a declaration of the United Nations, not later than Jan., 1952. There …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Joe Louis-Rocky Marciano fight Visit to Rocky's training camp at Greenwood Lake. An ancient featherweight champion, Abe …
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 …
PROFILE of William Zeckendorf, president and sole stockholder in the real estate firm of Webb & Knapp, tells about the property Zeckendorf acquired and …
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.”
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.
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.