PROFILE of Ernest H. Martin & Cy Feuer, the producers of five successive musical hits. The producers' most memorable tussle was one they engaged in a …
Best New Yorker Articles of 1956
Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1956 issues.
52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: E. J. Kahn (5)
Most featured section: Profiles
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PROFILE of Cy Feuer & Ernest H. Martin, the theatrical producers who "pushed their way into the theatre with elbows & teeth," & produced five successive …
Writer tells about shooting for sport at her home in Southern Rhodesia, when she was a girl. Her brother was a good shot and observed all sorts of …
PROFILE of John Reed Kilpatrick, former president & now chairman of the board of Madison Square Garden. He was succeeded as president by James D. Norris, …
PROFILE of Jean Rosenthal, stage lighting expert, whose artistry has been seen in productions of the N.Y.C. Ballet, in those of the N. Y. C. Opera; in …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Ford Foundation sale of 10,200, 000 shares of Ford Motor Co. stock. Charles R. Blyth, chairman of the board of Blyth & Co., the…
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Mittenwald, in Bavaria, a famous old violin-making town whose business is now nearly dead. Gives history of the town. …
PROFILE of Martin Coneely, who under the name of Joseph Cosey, forged and sold not only signatures but whole letters and other manuscripts in the …
PROFILE of Emory Cook, sound engineer, founder & president of Sounds of Our Times, or Cook Laboratories, Inc., a small hi-fi recording firm in Stamford, …
PROFILE of Emory Cook, sound engineer, founder & president of Sounds or Our Times, or Cook Laboratories, Inc., a small hi-fi-recording firm in Stamford, …
In 1956, Bernard Taper joined Thurgood Marshall, the legendary lawyer for the N.A.A.C.P., for a meeting in Georgia about ending racial segregation in Southern schools.
PROFILE of Daniel Fraad, Jr., president of Allied Maintenance Corp., a housekeeping enterprise with a staff or nearly 5000. It's troops of moppers, …
When the writer was a child in Boston, her father would come upstairs after she was in bed for the night and tell stories about his activities. These fell …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the history of diamond mining in and around Kimberley, South Africa. The first diamond was found by a child in 1866 or 1867, and …
Fiction, from 1956: I have yearned for some women—turned green, in fact—but it seemed to me that I had never yearned for anyone the way I yearned that night for money.
PROFILE of Lillian Leitzel, the great circus star, tells about Con Colleano, a young Spanish wire walker of flashing genius, and his perfoemance at the …
PROFILE of Lillian Leitzel, circus aerealist. She married Clyde Ingalls, the Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey's sideshow manager, who also made all …
REPORTER AT LARGE about attending the League of Women Voters' Legislative Conference held once a year at Albany. Visit to the League's …
Story about how Sidney, a 13 year old boy visits his next door neighbors, the Roberts to watch them build a patio. The boy is full of unvelcome advice and …
REPORTER AT LARGE about private, surface digging for diamonds that goes on in certain areas of South Africa. Much of the land is owned by De Beers …
REPORTER AT LARGE about industrial diamonds, which account for 80% of the diamond trade in terms of bulk and 25% in terms of profit. In Feb., 1955, General…
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Lower Manhattan rent-control office, a local branch of the Temporary State Housing Rent Commission. This office, on 12th fl. of…
A female hare, who had been born with a foot in everybody's affairs, became known in her community, as "that big Belgian busybody". She reproached a …
Lengthy discussion in REPORTER AT LARGE about Jehovah's Witnesses. Although Witnesses claim that the first Witness was Abel, a possibly more defensible…
The author, after referring briefly to writers' habit of adding foreign words to English text, writes a letter to a friend about his trip to Arcachon, …
Zula, an 18-year-old Texas girl is lying in the spring sun talking to her brother and watching two copper heads come to life. She is in her last year in a …
PROFILE of Venice. The Venetian Jew was greatly favored compared to other Jews, in the medieval period. He was allowed to set up loan banks, to trade with …
The second in a three-part series of articles, by Mary McCarthy, about Venice.
REPORTER AT LARGE about a radiation accident which injured the eyesight of physicist, Dr. Lloyd Smith. It took place when he was working on a cyclotron at …
The author as a boy goes to visit his friend, Jimmy Leary, whom he admires mainly for his general air of self-confidence and sophistication. Jimmy suggests…
When the writer was 7 she was taken to visit Cousin Ursula's Castle Pink in Ireland. The place was haunted, and everyone except the owner feared unseen…
PROFILE of Leo Cesoli, senior conducteur of the Austrian Division of the Compagnie Grands Express Europeen, which operates most of Europe's, …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Bayreuth Festival--the Wagner music festival in Bavaria. History of the festival, founded by Wagner in 1876. From the beginning…
Writer sees an article in the "Times" about a college boy who earns money in the summer by operating a lift. He conducts an imaginary interview between …
Peter Dent generously offers his house to the rather hard-up Fuller family for the summery, as he and his wife are going to Europe. The Fullers arrive the …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Summer Nationals of the American Contract Bridge League, the World Series of bridge which took place a few weeks ago at the …
PROFILE of Sidney James Weinberg, senior partner in the investment-banking firm of Goldman, Sachs & Co., & a director "of a number of large corporations. …
Joseph Mitchell’s 1956 Profile of George H. Hunter, the chairman of the board of the African Methodist church in Sandy Ground, Staten Island.
REPORTER AT LARGE about Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, head of the De Beers group of corporation, that control practically all of the world's diamond …
PROFILE of Georges Braque, the French painter. In 1907, Braque was hunter up by Kahnweiler, a brilliant, intellectual German from a well-do-do family of …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Vice-President Nixon's campaign tour of 32 states from Sept. 18 to Oct. 3. Nixon & his wife were accompanied by the largest …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Nyack Community Ambulance Corps. The Corps, which is supported entirely by contributions and manned entirely by unpaid …
Truman Capote on the Leningrad première of the opera “Porgy and Bess.”
In 1928, a few years after the writer emigrated to the U.S. from Hungary, he read that telephone calls could be made between N.Y. & Paris. Meeting some of …
PROFILE of Leopold Godwsky, violinist & son of pianist Leopold Godowsky, tells how he & his friend Leopold Mannes invented the Kodachrome color process. …
PROFILE of John Colquhoun Tysen, president of Previews, Inc., a real-estate firm, tells about the beginning of the unique enterprise. Henderson Talbot, an …
Mr. Weintraub was very lonely one spring evening in 1940. His wife had died a year or so before, and his son, Willard, was drifting away from him because …
The writer reminisces about her grandmother, who was an ardent Quaker, and possessed many fine qualities. She died 20 years ago, after living a full life. …
Writer submits her entry for a competition sponsored by "Time & Tide", an English magazine. They offered a prize for an imaginary interview between any two…
The writer left Sicily in the middle of December as it was getting cold. He decided to go to London at the invitation of his friends Chris & Mary, and …
The writer practices repartee with his wife before a party but she feeds him the wrong lines and his wit fails. For the next gathering he tells her what …
Helen telephones her friend, Mil, to tell her about a heavy date which ended abruptly. During her coffee break, at the restaurant in her office building …