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 …
Best New Yorker Articles of 1952
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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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, …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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…
PROFILE of Howard Ketcham, color engineer, with offices at 101 Park Ave. Ketcham differs from most industrial designers in that he thinks of design …
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 …
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 …
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 …
PROFILE of John P. Marquand, the novelist. Christina Sedgwick, the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Alexander C. Sedgwick and the niece of Ellery Sedgwick, the …
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 …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Newbold Morris' two months in Washington as Special Assistant to Attorney General J. Howard McGrath. McGrath told Morris he …
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.…
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Russian operated uranium mines at Jachymov (formerly Joachimsthal), Czechoslovakia The writer learned about conditions in the …
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…
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 …
Lillian Ross on the making of the classic film about the Civil War.
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.
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 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 …
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 …
Joseph Mitchell’s 1952 piece about the seafood restaurant Sloppy Louie’s and its contemplative proprietor, Louis Morino.
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 …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the prizefight at the Yankee Stadium between Sugar. Ray Robinson and Joey Maxim. Robinson, the middleweight champion weighed 157 …
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…
PROFILE of Cynthis Westcott, plant doctor.
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 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 …
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…
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…
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 …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Project Saucer, the Air Forces' investigation of reports of flying saucers. In Feb. 1951, Dr. Urner Liddel, a nuclear physicist…
Frank Sullivan on the perennial clichés of political campaign speeches.
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…
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Eisenhower campaign. Dr. Stanley High, the versatile theologian and Reader's Digest editor, heads up the belles-lettres …
PROFILE of Dorothy Day, who with Peter Maurin, an itinerant preacher, described as "apostle on the bum," who advocated "a Utopian Christian communism," …
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 …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the intersection of the Tacon in State Parkway & Underhill Road, Yorktown Heights, which has been considered one of Westchesters …
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 …
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 …
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…
PROFILE of Addison Mizner, the society architect. Alec Waugh, a carefully reared English school boy, now a novelist, joined the Mizner staff. He could …
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 & …
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 …
RPOFILE of Addison Mizner. In 1925, the Florida railroads were clogged by thousands of freight trains carrying building materials, and embargoes had to be …
PROFILE of Alfred Carlton Gilbert, founder & president of the A.C. Gilbert Co., which manufactures Erector Sets, American Flyer Trains, and, dozens of …
On Christmas Eve, 1951, the writer and three Korean soldiers on special assignment, stayed at an inn outside Kyongju. Shortly after arriving, the writer …