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Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1952 issues.

52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: A. J. Liebling (6)

Most featured section: Profiles

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NOT SEEN, NOT HEARD, BUT FELT
Christopher Rand · A Reporter at Large · January 5

REPORTER AT LARGE about spending an evening in an opium den somewhere in China in the company of J. L. Fu, a scholar. While Mr. Fu smoked a few pipes he …

SECOND CITY.
A. J. Liebling · Profiles · January 12

PROFILE of Chicago tells about an interview with Robert D. Stuart, Jr., son. of a vice-president of Quaker Oats, and-natl dir. of America First Committee, …

AT HER FEET THE SLAIN DEER
A. J. Liebling · Profiles · January 19

PROFILE of Chicago. That city claims to be the center of coin-machine manufacture, including coin-operated gambling games; it accounts for 20% of the …

THE MASSACRE.
A. J. Liebling · Profiles · January 26

PROFILE of Chicago recalls gangster murders, such as the massacre of 1929. There have been gang homicides in Chicago since the Massacre... On Sept. 25, …

White Sales and Aristotle.
Dwight Macdonald · Profiles · February 2

PROFILE of Richard Weil, Jr., president of R.H. Macy's N.Y. store. One of his closest friends is Mortimer J. Adle r, the metaphysician, whose "How To …

A Hundred and Eighteen Pounds.
A. J. Liebling · A Reporter at Large · February 9

REPORTER AT LARGE about the present prize-ring picture; the abandonment of the prize ring by Jewish and Irish boys; and about the disappearance of the …

London Salutes the New Queen
Mollie Panter-Downes · Letter from London · February 16

Mollie Panter-Downes reports from London about the days following King George VI’s tragically unexpected death and Elizabeth II’s rise to the throne.

RUNAWAYS
Katharine T. Kinkead · A Reporter at Large · February 23

REPORTER AT LARGE about runaway kids & about the Times Sq. Patrol, a special unit set up by the Juvenile Aid Bureau, of the Police Dept., which rounds up …

Tainted Money
John T. Winterich · Fiction · March 1

The author tells a story of his childhood - about the day he and his friend went looking for clams near the Providence R.I. pesthouse. The pesthouse was an…

AN EMOLUTION FOR HELIOTROPE
Geoffrey T. Hellman · Profiles · March 8

PROFILE of Howard Ketcham, color engineer, with offices at 101 Park Ave. Ketcham differs from most industrial designers in that he thinks of design …

FROM YASNAYA POLYANA TO VALLEY COTTAGE
Robert Rice · Profiles · March 15

PROFILE of Countess Tolstoy, the only surviving child of Leo Tolstoy. The Countess was born Jul. 1, 1884. She was the 12th of 13 children born to the …

FROM YASNAYA POLYANA TO VALLEY COTTAGE
Robert Rice · Profiles · March 22

PROFILE of Countess Tolstoy tells about her work in Russia after the abdication of the Czar, 1917. The government gav her consent to found, with a member …

THERE'S NO TIME.
Philip Hamburger · Profiles · March 29

PROFILE of J. P. Marquand, the novelist tells about the two winters he spent on Treasure Island, originally called Salt Cay. The late John McCutcheon, the …

THERE'S NO PLACE
Philip Hamburger · Profiles · April 5

PROFILE of John P. Marquand, the novelist. Christina Sedgwick, the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Alexander C. Sedgwick and the niece of Ellery Sedgwick, the …

THE WHITE CHINESE
Christopher Rand · A Reporter at Large · April 12

REPORTER AT LARGE about the anti-Red or White Chinese who escaped from China to Hong Kong when the Communists took over. Exiles have swelled population to …

MR. MORRIS GOES TO WASHINGTON
Richard H. Rovere · A Reporter at Large · April 19

REPORTER AT LARGE about Newbold Morris' two months in Washington as Special Assistant to Attorney General J. Howard McGrath. McGrath told Morris he …

Phoenix in Rubble.
Joseph Wechsberg · A Reporter at Large · April 26

REPORTER AT LARGE about rubble removal in Berlin. Of the 98 million cubic yards of rubble, only 29 million, or not quite a third, have been removed so far.…

SOFT NORMS IN A SPA.
Joseph Wechsberg · A Reporter at Large · May 3

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Russian operated uranium mines at Jachymov (formerly Joachimsthal), Czechoslovakia The writer learned about conditions in the …

PLENIPOTENTIARY
E. J. Kahn · Profiles · May 10

Profile of W. Averell Harriman tells about Mr. Harriman's talk with Sherwood in 1942, when the Germans were on the point of taking Stalingrad. Harriman…

THIS ALLURING ROADWAY
Stanley Edgar Hyman · Profiles · May 17

PROFILE of Brooklyn Bridge, which opened May 24, 1883, and took 13 years and 6 months to build, The engineer was John Robeling, who died as a result of an …

No. 1512—I
Lillian Ross · Onward and Upward with the Arts · May 24

Lillian Ross on the making of the classic film about the Civil War.

No. 1512—II
Lillian Ross · Onward and Upward with the Arts · May 31

In Part II of her 1952 series, Lillian Ross observes the on-set production of John Huston’s film “The Red Badge of Courage”—and the tensions between great art and big business in Hollywood moviemaking.

Mailman For The Kremlin .
Joseph Wechsberg · A Reporter at Large · June 7

REPORTER AT LARGE about a former Polish diplomat (the writer calls him Krakowski), attached to the Polish embassy in a Western European country until quite…

The News
Sloan Wilson · Fiction · June 14

The writer went to a P.T.A. meeting to hear a speech on "The Effect of the News of War on Adolescents and Its Relationship to Juvenile Delinquency" which …

Charity Begins
James Reid Parker · Fiction · June 21

The writer's story of the day his New England home was on exhibit for tourists on Old Houses Day. The Women's Auxiliary of the local hospital …

The Cave
Joseph Mitchell · Profiles · June 28

Joseph Mitchell’s 1952 piece about the seafood restaurant Sloppy Louie’s and its contemplative proprietor, Louis Morino.

THREE CHEERS FOR THE BLUE, WHITE & RED.
E. J. Kahn · Profiles · July 5

PROFILE of Gridley Adams, an retired advertising man who, for the better part of the last 30 years has carried on an impassioned public love affair with …

Kearns By A Knockout.
A. J. Liebling · A Reporter at Large · July 12

REPORTER AT LARGE about the prizefight at the Yankee Stadium between Sugar. Ray Robinson and Joey Maxim. Robinson, the middleweight champion weighed 157 …

The Fight in the Hallway
John McNulty · Fiction · July 19

The writer sitting in a bar, hears his friend Leo tell about his fight. Seems a neighbor had called his baby a 'Goddam kid' and told him to get the…

PHYSICIAN IN THE FLOWERBEDS
Eugene Kinkead · Profiles · July 26

PROFILE of Cynthis Westcott, plant doctor.

Cloudland Revisited; When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Films...
S. J. Perelman · Fiction · August 2

The writer recalls his thrill as a young boy in seeing "Male and Female", an old Cecil DeMille movie with Gloria Swanson, Thomas Meighan and Lila Lee. He …

The Presbyterian Pyramid System
St. Clair McKelway · Fiction · August 9

The writer's many ancestors, which he illustrates by dots that form a pyramid, were all Presbyteruans and mostly in the clergy. He has longed to get …

THE CAGE
Daniel Lang · A Reporter at Large · August 16

REPORTER AT LARGE about a woman referred to as Jean Baker, who was trapped in a self-service elevator in her six-story house in Madison Ave., from Saturday…

My Medical Career
Jack Luria · Fiction · August 23

When the writer was 13 years old, he was sent to visit his rich uncle at Longport. It was his first time away from his mother and their East Side apartment…

Run, Helen!
Herbert Warren Wind · Profiles · August 30

PROFILE of Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, tennis champion, the holder of forty-three national titles. Mrs. W. met Helen Wills in the summer of 1920. Helen …

SOMETHING IN THE SKY
Daniel Lang · A Reporter at Large · September 6

REPORTER AT LARGE about Project Saucer, the Air Forces' investigation of reports of flying saucers. In Feb. 1951, Dr. Urner Liddel, a nuclear physicist…

The Cliché Expert Testifies on the Campaign
Frank Sullivan · Shouts & Murmurs · September 13

Frank Sullivan on the perennial clichés of political campaign speeches.

Yea, Verily.
A. J. Liebling · Profiles · September 20

PROFILE of Colonel John R. Stingo (James Macdonald), columnist of the N.Y. Enquirer. The Colonel, who refers to himself as the Honest Rainmaker, was amused…

The Campaign: Eisenhower
Richard H. Rovere · A Reporter at Large · September 27

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Eisenhower campaign. Dr. Stanley High, the versatile theologian and Reader's Digest editor, heads up the belles-lettres …

THE FOOLISH THINGS OF THE WORLD.
Dwight Macdonald · Profiles · October 4

PROFILE of Dorothy Day, who with Peter Maurin, an itinerant preacher, described as "apostle on the bum," who advocated "a Utopian Christian communism," …

"THE FOOLISH THINGS OF THE WORLD." Founder of the Catholic Worker.
Dwight Macdonald · Profiles · October 11
The Outside
Croswell Bowen · A Reporter at Large · October 18

REPORTER AT LARGE about John Resko, a murderer who was released from Clinton Prison, Dannemora, New York, after serving 19 years of a life sentence. A …

THE HAMLET AND THE JUGGERNAUT
E. J. Kahn · A Reporter at Large · October 25

REPORTER AT LARGE about the intersection of the Tacon in State Parkway & Underhill Road, Yorktown Heights, which has been considered one of Westchesters …

Three Players of A Summer Game
Tennessee Williams · Fiction · November 1

The story of an alcoholic, Brick Pollitt, who tried to regain his self-respect with the help of his mistress, his doctor's widow. When he was with his …

Book Scout.
Stanley Edgar Hyman · Profiles · November 8

PROFILE of Louis Scher, a book scout and owner of the Seven Bookhunters, a firm that undertakes to locate out-of-print books. It is located at 45 W. 17th …

THE DREAMING
Alan Moorehead · A Reporter at Large · November 15

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Northern Territory of Australia. There is a well-founded tradition of violece in the North. From the first, the violence of the…

THE PALM BEACH ARCHITECT.
Alva Johnston · Profiles · November 22

PROFILE of Addison Mizner, the society architect. Alec Waugh, a carefully reared English school boy, now a novelist, joined the Mizner staff. He could …

THE PALM BEACH ARCHITECT
Alva Johnston · Profiles · November 29

PROFILE of Addison Mizner, the Palm Beach architect. Jones a wealthy old bachelor known as King Jones of Baden-Baden, was one of Addison's clients & …

THE PALM BEACH ARCHITECT.
Alva Johnston · Profiles · December 6

PROFILE of Addison Mizner; recollections of the Florida real-estate boom. In order to save buyers from going to see their purchases, promoters had relief …

THE PALM BEACH ARCHITECT.
Alva Johnston · Profiles · December 13

RPOFILE of Addison Mizner. In 1925, the Florida railroads were clogged by thousands of freight trains carrying building materials, and embargoes had to be …

AMERICAN BOY
John Bainbridge · Profiles · December 20

PROFILE of Alfred Carlton Gilbert, founder & president of the A.C. Gilbert Co., which manufactures Erector Sets, American Flyer Trains, and, dozens of …

A Korean Christmas Tale
David Pennoyer · Fiction · December 27

On Christmas Eve, 1951, the writer and three Korean soldiers on special assignment, stayed at an inn outside Kyongju. Shortly after arriving, the writer …

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