Best New Yorker Articles of 1957
Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1957 issues.
52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: Christopher Rand (7)
Most featured section: Profiles
Featured Picks
PROFILE OF Guy Lombardo, who was born on June 19, 1902, in London, Ontario. He began his musical career as a boy together with his brothers, Carmen, Lebert…
REPORTER AT LARGE about the UN General Assembly session now going on. Membership is split up into three blocs. One is the Asian-African group. They have …
PROFILE of Mayor Robert F. Wagner tells about his childhood school, and college days. In 1928, while at Taft, Wagner swung into action on the campus …
Writer reminisces about his three great-great-aunts, daughters of his great-great-grandmother Emerita Anna. They lived in Venice all their lives. The …
Mr. Solly, junior officer of a freighter, was only 27, but had gotten his nickname from Solomon because his calm judgment had prevented arguments from …
PROFILE of Marianne Moore. In 1926, Miss Moore became editor-in-chief of the Dial, a magazine concerned purely with the arts of writing, painting and …
For many years scientists have said that the monarch butterfly is shunned by birds because it is unpalatable. The viceroy, another butterfly that is …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the flight of Vilmos Fekete, his wife, and two young daughters from Budapest to Austria, after the anti-Communist uprising last …
Janet Flanner’s 1957 Profile of the painter and sculptor.
A. J. Liebling’s 1957 report from the Gaza strip.
The writer tells everything she knows about her maternal Grandmother, who was Jewish. Her Grandfather was Protestant Her Mother married an Irish Catholic …
PROFILE of Dr. Helaine Newstead, Arthurian scholar, and a professor of Hunter College. Dr. Newstead is an extraordinarily versatile linguist, who is …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a drag-racing meet at the Westhampton Raceway, in Speonk, L.I., conducted by the Long Island Hot Rod Ass'n. "Hot-rodder" is the…
REPORTER AT LARGE about avalanches in the Austrian Alps, avalanche victims & what is being done in the way of avalanche control. Zurs, a cluster of …
PROFILE of Richard Barstow, the director & choreographer of the Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus. In 1922 Richard had signed on with Edith, his …
PROFILE OF Richard Barstow, director & choreographer of the Circus; record of his diverse accomplishments. He has been, among many other things, a featured…
Franny comes home from college in a state of collapse. She is suffering spiritually, and it takes a great deal of talking on the part of her brother Zooey …
PROFILE of Abe Burrows, liberettist and director of musical comedy. Burrows who was once a tutor of Latin, is a rapt devotee of etymology. He is in fact, …
PROFILE of Abe Burrows, writer, composer, director, and performer. When Gardner was the producer and star of C.B.S. radio show called "This Is New York," …
The Engels, Americans, were travelling in Italy and Mrs. Engel was having a wonderful time trying out her Italian. She only knew a few words but she got …
Barnby Robinson, an English playwright, decided to live apart from his wife, Melissa, for a six month period. He was going to London to be with Molly …
Writer sees a subway poster indicating how a letter should be addressed, using postal zone numbers. It is to Mr. Henry Smith, 901 State Street, Anywhere 3,…
The writer recalls the spring he was 16, living in St. Louis. His sister, whom he adored, was 22, and beautiful. Their father was dead. The mother often …
Last summer the writer got a call from a college friend, Josephine Barnett, of Oil City, Pa. She and her 15 year old son, Michael, were visiting N.Y. …
PROFILE of Vittorio De Sica, the Italian actor, director, & producer, tells about his dealings with Hollywood producers, among them Selznick. His initial …
PROFILE of Vittorio De Sica, actor, director, and producer. Ever since 1939, when De Sica directed his first picture, De Sica, roaming the haunts of humble…
While Mrs. Engel was in Rome with her husband, she wanted very much to see the Pope, although she was Episcopalian. When a Catholic lady, Miss Murphy, gave…
Story about a little girl, Maybeth, and Jim, the hired Negro who worked the cotton field behind her house. Maybeth had no one to play with, so she would …
Story about three American girls & their chaperone in Yugoslavia. Miss Baxter left the girls at the hotel beach one afternoon to go into town on the …
An American couple of Irish descent went over to Ireland to spend some time. A woman named Kathleen lived in the community where they stayed. Her fiance …
Story told in first person by the wife of a London publisher. June has a rather whimsical relationship with her husband & is bored with life. She has …
PROFILE of Robert Bellet, commissaire principal, or chief purser of the French Line ship, the Liberte. At the moment the French Line has only 26 …
Laura Andrews was a tall young woman who looked serene. But she was three months pregnant and had a four year-old daughter, and this particular August day …
PROFILE of Dr. Suzuki, the world's leading authority on Zen Buddhism. Dr. S., who lectures at Columbia, is neither a monk nor a practicing Zen master, …
REPORTER AT LARGE about an 18 year old boy who shoplifted in a weak moment, in 1955, and his rehabilitation thru humane treatment. Writer calls the boy …
PROFILE of Olin & Roderick Stephens, of Sparkman & Stephens, Inc., a N.Y. firm of naval architects, yacht brokers, & marine-insurance specialists. Olin is …
In 1957, Walter Bernstein spent time with the Cherubs, a teen-age street gang. “The Cherubs are not good boys,” he wrote.
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit with William O'Dwyer, former Mayor of the City of N.Y. He's been living in Mexico City since the fall of 1950, when…
Mary gets a phone call around 10 PM from a man at Powell's Station, about 12 miles away, saying that her husband, Jay, has been in a serious accident, …
REPORTER AT LARGE about boxing matches at Shoreditch, London, and about the row kicked up in sports circles when it was announced in the papers that Terry …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Lindt & Sprungli chocolate factory at Kilchberg, Switzerland, the 2nd largest of the 36 chocolate factories in Switzerland. No …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a study conducted by the U. S. Army going into the background & prison experiences of every American captured during the Korean …
PROFILE of George London, who is scheduled to begin his 6th consecutive season at the Metropolitan Opera House. He was born in Montreal in 1920, the only …
Truman Capote’s 1957 Profile of the actor, reported from the set of “Sayonara.”
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Orientals in San Francisco, the meeting place for East & West. Discusses the Chinese, the Japanese & the Filipinos in Calif., …
REPORTER AT LARGE about San Francisco-America's gateway to Asia. Since the Second World War, the Bay region universities have gone in far more heavily …
REPORTER AT LARGE a bout the Puerto Ricans in N.Y. estimated at 550,000. The idea that Pueto Ricans come here with the idea of getting on home relief is …
REPORTER AT URGE about the Puerto Ricans. Tells about the wonders worked by Puerto Rico's present administration, headed by Luis Munoz-Marin, who in …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Puerto Ricans in N. Y., and about how the migrants react to being classified as colored. The darker Puerto Ricans react by …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Puerto Ricans in N.Y. & about the strain put on the school system by the influx of non-English-speaking pupils. As far as …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the NATO conference in Paris and about the spat between Art Buchwald & the President's news secretary, James Hagerty. Buchwald …