PROFILE of the famous Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan. Like Rudolf Bing, he is dead set against opera singers who are not physicallybeautiful, …
Best New Yorker Articles of 1961
Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1961 issues.
52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: John Bainbridge (5)
Most featured section: Profiles
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A study of Mrs. John F. Kennedy's appointments to date, furnish a remarkable parallel to Mr. Kennedy's appointments to his Cabinet, & it is …
Joe Saunders, a Cockney, and his wife, Brigid, an Irish girl, had been married a year when they had their first baby. They lived outside London in a …
PROFILE of Robert K. Merton, professor of sociology at Columbia University. Humanists have for some time derided sociologists for their tendency to cement …
A government clerk, his wife and three small daughters lived in a small house in Dublin. The mother was a country girl who was unsure of herself. The only …
PROFILE of Cecil Green, a professional fishing guide and proprietor of Green's Acre, a guest camp on Islamorada. The Greens bought the coral acre in …
PROFILE of Cecil Green, a Florida Keys fishing guide, tells about hurricane Donna, the worst storm in this country's history, which roared through the …
To remember her first poem, Miki had to remember a childhood winter in Rumania before the Second World War when she was nine years old--and Suzanna. …
PROFILE of John Moors Cabot, Ambassador to Brazil. In '44, Mr. Cabot was appointed as a Counsellor of Embassy at Buenos Aires, this was during the big …
Part 1 of John Bainbridge’s portrait of the state and its millionaires, oil tycoons, and fixation on size.
PROFILE of Texas and its oil industry. Most Texas million aires are in oil. The industry is young, inventive, brash, enterprising, powerful, well …
Pierce Egan, the London prize ring expert, is quoted several times in this REPORTER AT LARGE about the Miami Beach championship fight between Johansson & …
Annie Melvin accepted Dr. Spencer Fifield's invitation to join him & his parents in their Passover Festival dinner because she didn't want to hurt …
PROFILE of Texas deals with millionaires' homes, gardens, parties, gastronomy, drinking, society & position of women. Most of the homes are not …
Robert Price’s Profile of the comedians Mike Nichols and Elaine May.
In the Children's Museum in Nashville, rattlesnakes coil protected by glass and by placards warning that if teased they might just dash their brains …
PROFILE of David E. Lilienthal, co-founder & chairman of the board of the Development & Resources Corporation, of 50 Broadway. D. & R.--whose co-founder & …
PROFILE of Texas. One Texas millionaire who has long been fascinated by the ways of chance is Ralph Lowe, who'll bet on anything. A few years ago he …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the experiences of American Negroes in West Africa. Writer travelled there last summer to observe, among other things, some of the …
PROFILE of Texas. Not only the Texas landscape is changing but also the figures on it. Where is a latter-day Super-American sufficiently picturesque to be …
In December, 1938, at the age of ten, the writer went on the first transport to England that the Vienna Jewish Committee had organized to rescue Jewish …
PROFILE of Dave Brubeck piano player in the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Dave grew up on a ranch, and he thinks of himself as a cowboy gone wrong. He is a devoted…
REPORTER AT LARGE about the racial gerrymander in Tuskegee, designed to prevent Negroes from voting in municipal elections. In Tuskegee-the seat of Macon …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Supreme Court's deliberation on the Gomillion Versus Lightfoot, the Tuskegee racial gerrymander. The court ruled the act …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the light-heavyweight boxing match between Archie Moore, a Negro and Giulio Rinaldi, from Rome, Italy, at Madison Square Garden, …
Writer wonders whether as the swimmer drowns he loves the sea, or the zebra the lion which devours it, or the mountain climber the cliff from which he …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a journey by ship up the Amazon river, through the 2 1/2 million square miles of the region called Amazonas - the basin of the …
PROFILE of the American elm tree, which will probably become extinct due to the Dutch elm disease. Among the tree's good qualities are that it is …
In December, 1938, at the age of ten, the writer went on the first transport that the Vienna Jewish Committee had organized to rescue Jewish children from …
Etta Salkeld & Sarah Lippmann were school friends. Because Etta's widowed mother worked, Etta spent her holidays outside of London with another Jewish …
Two American tourists - not yet married - were travelling through Italy. They got off the bus on the Via Tiburtina, near the Villa Adriana. She told him …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a journey from Brasilia, across the Brazilian jungles, to Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. Author made a trip to Bananal Island. …
In moving from Olinger to Firetown, David Kern, fourteen, tries to work off some of his disorientation by arranging books. In "An Outline of History," by …
Anna Glover,a slight woman of 36, goes out for a day of fishing on Lake Okatukla at Philippi, a town in the lower Mississippi Valley,where she lives. Two …
Late in the summer there are 4 guests at the pensione of Marina & Daniele near Florence--an elderly English couple, the Fenwick's & a young one, …
REPORTER AT LARGE about "an uncomfortable, perhaps foolish journey of nearly a thousand miles along Peru's jungle rivers." Plans for the expedition …
PROFILE of Otto Molden, a 43-year-old Viennese, the founder of the European Forum, in Alpbach, Austria -a program of lectures, seminars, & roundtable …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a journey up the Nile to Aswan the site of the new dam; about the ancient temples, monuments, tombs that will be flooded by the …
PROFILE of Pilgrim State Hospital, world's largest mental institution, near Brentwood, L.I., under jurisdiction of N.Y. State Dept. of Mental Hygiene. …
PROFILE of Pilgrim State Hospital, largest mental institution in the world, located near Brentwood, L.I., directed by Dr. Henry Brill. On an average day 82…
Fiction, from 1961: “Even before the official opening of her prime, Miss Brodie’s colleagues in the Junior School had been gradually turning against her.”
PROFILE sketch of William Holden, the actor, born in O'Fallon, Ill. His real name is William Franklin Beedle, Jr Mr. Holden was brought up in Pasadena,…
Short PROFILE of actress Katharine Cornell, born Feb. 16, 1898. At boarding school-the Oaksmere School in Mamaroneck she coached basketball, tennis and …
PROFILE sketch of Simone Signoret, born in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1921. Her father, Andre Kaminker was Jewish, her mother was French. When she was two, the…
REPORTER AT LARGE about London fog. London is the largest urban area that is regularly afflicted with fogs, and for centuries no fogs have had more …
PROFILE of Richard Rodgers, the composer. He has added two large & highly effective pieces of instrumental background music for TV serials. These were the …
Part II of REPORTER AT LARGE about Sir Edward Watkin's Cha nel Tunnel Company which after having succeeded in tunnelling a mile and three quarters toward …
PROFILE of Maurice Pate, executive director of UNICEF. Six years ago, there were over 2 million cases of chronic malaria in the Mexican lowlands. Malaria …
Twenty-five years, when the writer was a teen-ager in Philadelphia she was on a committee that helped organize the Phila. Orchestra's Thursday Youth …
In December, 1938, at the age of ten, the writer went on the first transport that the Vienna Jewish Committee had organized to rescue Jewish children from …
PROFILE of Hugh K. Johnson, a member of the N.Y.C. Youth Board and chief of the street-club workers in S. Bronx. Victor Purcell, the supervisor in E. E. …
The son of a Presbyterian clergyman in Washington, the writer found that during his youth his family's house was constantly filled with visiting …