The writer tells how he and his friend, Dom Moraes, both Indians, spend a bummy month together in India. They had been great friends at Oxford. Mr. Mehta …
Best New Yorker Articles of 1960
Explore 53 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1960 issues.
53 picks · 53 issues · Top author: S. N. Behrman (6)
Most featured section: Profiles
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The writer's wife made a chance remark about wanting garnet earrings, so when he was in London, after a long stay abroad, he tried to buy them for her.…
ANNALS OF MEDICINE about alcohol, discussing the various symptoms of the hangover; fatigue, headache, thirst, vertigo, and nausea. Fatigue, like pain & …
Philosophical thoughts by an Englishwoman, especially on animals. First she tells about reading the newspaper to her father, whose eyesight is failing. He …
The writer tells about Lanty, a childhood friend. The two boys grew up in the same Irish town. Lanty was a wild boy, who had a great many accidents, but …
PROFILE of Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm speaks of an incomplete masterpiece in Sir Max's possession, an unfinished portrait of Goethe by a painter …
PROFILE of Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm. Visit to his home in Rapallo. Sir Max talked about Virginia Woolf's diary; about the things about her that he…
PROFILE OF Sir Max Beerbohm tells about Queen Victoria's book "More Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the High-lands," dedicated to John Brown. Sir …
PROFILE of Sir Max Beerbohm in which he recalls his association with Frank Harris, owner of the Saturday Review. Sir Max worked for Harris from 1898 until …
PROFILE of Sir Max Beerbohm. As a drama tritic he refused to be knocked over by Eleonora Duse, who acted in Italian, for the bizarre reason that he …
OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about a visit to Brasilia, brand-new capital of Brazil, which will officially become the seat of government next month, …
PROFILE of Sir Max Beerbohm. Mr. Marcus visited Sir Max at Rapallo and had with him a sheaf of assorted, non-consecutive pages of a printing of Max's …
Reminiscences about the writer's boyhood in Cork, Ireland. He was from a poor family but determined to get an education. He read English boys' …
PROFILE of Franz Allers, musical director of "My Fair Lady." The man who originally conceived the notion of making a musical out of "Pygmalion" was Gabriel…
PROFILE of Anne Hone Rogers, dog-breeder, handler, and co-proprietor (with her mother, Mrs. Olga Hone Rogers) of the Surrey Kennels, in Lake Mahopac. Miss …
PROFILE of George Balanchine, chief choreographer of the N. Y. City Ballet. Lincoln Kirstein, the general director of the Ballet, who for nearly thirty …
PROFILE of George Balanchine, chief choreographer of the N. Y. C. Ballet. In 1931, Rene Blum, the brother of Leon Blum, began putting together a ballet …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Flight 320, an American Airlines plane that overshot the runway at LaGuardia Field & plunged into the East River, tells about the …
The writer, aged 25, a Hindu, goes home to India after 7 years in America, & 3 years studying at Oxford. His family had to flee Pakistan and is now in New …
PROFILE of Glenn Gould, the young Canadian pianist, tells about his search for a piano with wider gaps between the white keys, to enable him to wiggle them…
REPORTER AT LARGE about Henry Morton Stanley's second trip to Africa, three years after the death of Dr. Livingstone. He assembled his expedition at …
A. J. Liebling writes about Governor Earl Long of Louisiana.
REPORTER AT LARGE about Governor Earl Long, of Louisians. The Governor told the following anecdote at the dinner table. "There was an important man once …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Louisiana primary elections & the gubernatorial election, 1959. Mayor Morrison, of New Orleans, seemed to be Gov. Long's …
Maeve Brennan reports on an eventful first day back in New York City.
When the writer was 12, in 1944, he & his family spent the summer, as usual, at the Grove, a small Massachusetts lakeshore colony. His father thought it …
When the writer received word of Candace's death she recalled their friendship. They met shortly before World War I, when both were American students …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the championship prizefight between Ingemar Johansson and Floyd Patterson. Author made up his mind simply to go to the Polo Ground …
Mrs. Wantage, 45, a divorcee, whose husband had died, comes back to a town in England, where she'd grown up to dispose of her dead aunt's house. …
PROFILE of Avery Brundage, president of the International Olympic Committee, tells about the Berlin Olympic of 1936. In '33, when the Nazis came to …
PROFILE of Mort Sahl, the night club entertainer. Sahl was given his first job, at seventy-five dollars a wekk, by Enrico Banducci, the proprietor of the …
Ulysses Snow Davids Quincy is a fractional man: a quarter Colonial American; a quarter Welsh, and half Lebanese. At 19 he volunteered in an American …
Exchange of letters between author & Stanley Merlin, owner of Busy Bee Cleaners, inspired by an article which Mr. P. read in The Times on advice of Rose …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a group of high school students from Indiana, who visited New York for the first time. The group consisted of 18 members of the …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a trip up the Hudson on the Hudson River Day Liner "Alexander Hamilton" to West Point, with a lecture by Mrs. Pat Tobin Philip. …
PROFILE of Count Guido Chigi Saracini, Siena's first citizen and its patron of music. From mid-July until mid-September an unparalleled course of music…
REPORTER AT LARGE about the complex procedures of Yale University's admissions, in effect, how the freshman class is selected. Writer learned about it …
Writer tells about the first job he had in the post office in the Cincinnati Terminal Annex. He worked on something called The Spider. Parcel post packages…
Katharine S. White pays tribute to the English gardener Gertrude Jekyll, “the beautifier of England,” while seed shopping for the autumn season.
A declaration of a certain Agatha Winthrop that appeared in an ad under the photograph of the author's house prompted this casual. The ad was for …
In Dublin the writer met a professor who had come from America to search out his origins. He was on the way to Kerry, where his grandfather had come from &…
Geoffrey T. Hellman visits the British author and humorist P. G. Wodehouse and his wife at their Long Island home, shortly after both had become American citizens.
John Updike writes about Ted Williams’s last game with the Boston Red Sox.
PROFILE of Stanley N. Arnold, of Stanley Arnold Associates Inc., a marketing-and-sales-management consultant. Mr. A. said that nearly 60 million dollars …
PROFILE of Robert W. Dowling tells about his development of Parkchester. He bought a Catholic protectory whose outmoded & dangerously inflammable buildings…
REPORTER AT LARGE about St. Lawrence Seaway and account of a ride up the Seaway on a Great Lakes freighter. For over 50 years a powerful lobby in the U.S. …
Richard H. Rovere on Senator John F. Kennedy’s slim-margin victory, over Vice-President Richard Nixon, in the 1960 Presidential election.
The writer, a young American girl, has been walking for eight days from Paris on to Copenhagen. For the past few days it has been raining heavily. With a …
Writing in 1960, E. B. White reflects on the rise of TV advertising and its effects on politics, journalism, and culture.
PROFILE of Allen Funt, inventor & moving spirit of the TV show "Candid Camera," & its predecessor, "Candid Microphone The point of his work is to capture, …
E. J. Kahn’s 1960 Profile of Theodor Seuss Geisel—a.k.a. Dr. Seuss.
The writer, who is 32, is driving home - to Tenafly. His wife, Lois, is sleeping in the back seat of the car. She is expecting their first child. He works …
REPORTER AT LARGE about London's financial district, the old City of London, & about a visit to several of its institutions among them the Stock …