REPORTER AT LARGE about observing the underground explosion in the desert southeast of Carlsbad, N. M..-Project Gnome which marked the opening of the …
Best New Yorker Articles of 1962
Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1962 issues.
52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: John Brooks (3)
Most featured section: A Reporter at Large
Featured Picks
At 46, John Lawrence was a full 42 years older than his son Charles, & his powers of invention weren't what they had been in the days when he used to …
The writer, a standee at the Met for the first time, was told by her companions, (her daughter & son-in-law & a cousin), that standees, a special breed, …
We think that a cow says "Moo" and a dog cries "Bow wow. In other parts of the world, however, animal, sounds are heard differently. Writer has studied …
PROFILE of Edward Russell Dewey, director of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles, tells about a classic cyclic example from nature. From 1735 up to the …
PROFILE of Jean Tinguely, the Swiss motion sculptor & invenor of the "meta-matic" machines. The new movement called "nouveaux realistes" includes Yves …
Thomas Whiteside on the pioneering producer who brought reality to television.
PROFILE of Pablo Casals, the Spanish cellist, who has been in self-imposed exile from his native land for 23 years, unwilling to accept the Franco …
A. J. Liebling writes about Muhammad Ali’s pugilistic poetry and his professional début in New York.
REPORTER AT LARGE about Japanese soldiers, sailors & civilian employees of the armed forces who were outside Japan on V-J Day, and about the stragglers who…
REPORTER AT LARGE about two Japanese soldiers who hid out on the Pacific island of Guam for 16 years, until May, 1960, not knowing World War II was over. …
REPORTER AT LARGE about two groups of Japanese service-men who hid out on the Philippines, not knowing World War II was over. One group, which hid on …
Roger Angell travels south for the sun-warmed, sleepy show of spring training.
PROFILE of Arthur J. Goldberg, Sec. of Labor, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrant. Presiding over the smallest department in the Cabinet which, according …
REPORTER AT LARGE about accompanying two officers of the Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources, a Canadian government agency, on an …
Two young people, who are law students in Dublin, meet, first by accident, and then intentionally, He is reluctant to form attachments; she has admired him…
Monica Cross, 18, tells her parents she wants to marry an American student she met in Paris. Tony is 10 years older than she is. The Crosses settle that …
PROFILE of two theoretical physicists, Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee, who in 1957, were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for "their penetrating …
Geoffrey T. Hellman meets Barbra Streisand, an unknown twenty-year-old singer wowing audiences on Broadway, in 1962.
Roland, a painter, first met Carol in London, where he had a studio. She was an American, travelling in England. It was now 5 years. They had been married …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a walk along the towpath of the derelict Chesapeak & Ohio Canal. At Seneca Lock author saw a duck-a tiny bufflehead, drifting along…
George Briscoe was 47 & Jane Rooney, 40, when they married. A Londoner, he had come to Dublin for a part with an English Theatre Co. He met Jane, a music …
Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking 1962 piece on the environmental impact of DDT and other pesticides.
Part II of Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking 1962 series on the environmental impact of DDT and other pesticides.
Part III of Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking 1962 series on the environmental impact of DDT and other pesticides.
REPORTER AT LARGE. Not long ago the writer spent a year in Greece, making Athens his center of operations & occasionally travelling about in the country. …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a four-day guided bus tour from Athens to see the ruins of Delphi, Olympia, and the section of northeastern Peloponnesus that …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a 4-week stay on Mykonos, one of the Cyclades, the largest group of Greek islands. A fast walker can go from one end to the other …
Calvin Tomkins on Gerald and Sara Murphy, the couple who inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Tender Is the Night.”
Writer recalls a day when Mary and Lucy Goodchild - two Negro sisters who were her mother's hairdresser and manicurist - came to do her mother's …
When Robert Ledger came home to New York after freshman year at college, he took a job with an engineering company which was located in a 27-story building…
Talk. The long-winded lady writes that she finds the world noisy & intrusive in the summertime; she is always too conscious of the rooms she is living in &…
REPORTER AT LARGE about London's Royal Parks. Hyde Park covers 361 acres. In 1536, Henry VIII proclaimed the area of the future Hyde Park &Kensington …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a journey in Nigeria. Port Harcourt, on the Niger River, displays forcibly the combination of the primitive and the very modern, of…
Hubert & Rose live in Dublin; they have been married over thirty years. Their only child, John, has become a priest, much to Hubert's disgust. Hubert, …
PROFILE of R. K. Narayan, acclaimed the best novelist in India, with eleven novels and two volumes of short stories to his credit. Successive interviews …
PROFILE of the Common Market. Jean Monnet, of France, the father of the Common Market, tells about the forming of the Schuman Plan, principally drafted by …
PROFILE of the Common Market. When the Common Market was set up in 1947 by the Treaty of Rome, terms of a common farm policy were purposely left vague. …
THE SPORTING SCENE about the heavyweight championship fight in Chicago, between Floyd Patterson, (defending his title), & Charles (Sonny) Liston. Liston …
A REPORTER AT LARGE. In the form of imaginary testimony before two officers of the Central Intelligence Agency, the writer tells of "The Edinburgh Caper," …
PROFILE of Julius Rudel, conductor of N. Y. City Opera, speaks of the artistic idealism and loyalty that makes the N.Y. City opera something quite …
Writing in 1962, John Bainbridge tells the story of the Berlin Wall’s first year—and of the East Germans who tried to run, drive, swim, and tunnel to the other side.
A REPORTER AT LARGE about the Library of Congress' Talking Book program for the blind. Each year, since 1934, they have issued between 150 & 350 …
Second PROFILE of Captain Blackburn, the oldest pilot (59) flying international routes for Trans-World Airlines. The first PROFILE ran May 5, 1956, and …
Reflections, by James Baldwin, from 1962: “Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.”
REPORTER AT LARGE about N.Y.C. Mounted Police. Interview with Lt. Dearing (not real name), at the Mounted Dist. Headquarters, 230 W. 20th St. The chief …
REPORTER AT LARGE about dropouts at Harvard College. These are students who, at some stage of their undergraduate careers leave class, either voluntarily, …
When the writer's mother went to school in the county town of Clonnelly, Ireland, she lodged in Jail Square in the house of a widow who had 2 daughters…
During lunch, Roger almost told Dorothy to shut up. After wards he went to his club. Lunch in a public restaurant was a part of their meetings that she …
PROFILE of Hermann Gmeiner, 43-year-old Austrian, who 13 years ago became concerned over the plight of his country's homeless children. Today he leads …
The writer, 16, tells about meeting her friend, Marnie, during Christmas vacation. Because Marnie was at boarding school & had spent last summer in France,…