PROFILE of Earl "Father" Hines, the consumate pianist & peer of Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden and Coleman Hawkins. Late last winter he gave a concert at …
Best New Yorker Articles of 1965
Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1965 issues.
52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: Calvin Trillin (5)
Most featured section: A Reporter at Large
Featured Picks
PROFILE of David Rockefeller, president of Chase Manhattan Bank, speaks of the power directors of Chase Manhattan supposedly wield. The Rickefellers …
PROFILE of David Rockefeller, president of Chase Manhatta Bank, tells about the Rockefeller family holdings at Seal Harbor; the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller …
John McPhee’s 1965 Profile of the Princeton basketball star Bill Bradley, whose achievements broke barriers in the Ivy League, where athletes of the highest calibre usually don’t show up.
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Communications Satellite Corp. or Comsat. It had been established by an Act of Congress-the Communications Satellite Act of …
PROFILE of Marcel Duchamp, the artist. Toward the end of 1911, he started work on a picture that proved to be too revolutionary even for his fellow-Cubist.…
Claire finally accepted Andrew's invitation to return to Chambery for Christmas. She hadn't been back for 23 yrs., not since the Germans, after 5 …
Renata Adler on radio and the history of rock and roll.
Walter Winchell in the "Los Angeles Herald-Examiner" stated that Richard Brooks is the No. 1 Perfectionist among cinemakers. He read "Lord Jim", the J. …
Fiction, from 1965: “But it is you I want now, here in the middle of this Uprising, with the streets yellow and threatening.”
REPORTER AT LARGE about Chamonix; the surrounding mountain and the history of Alpine mountaineering. Before 1850 the British had done no significant …
REPORTER AT LARGE About mountainclimbing in the Alps. Walter Bonatti, a well-known Genevan guide, and Michel Vaucher, put up a remarkable new route on the …
REPORTER AT LARGE about an attempt to rehabilitate a group of young men drug addicts from the Lower East Side No matter how often the heroin market moves …
Fiction, from 1965: The children did not know that they were living under what would later be called “unsheltered conditions.” They didn’t know that they were uneducated, and dirty, and in danger.
Renata Adler's 1965 report on the civil-rights march from Selma to Montgomery.
Barnett Frummer happened upon the discovery that Ted Mack's "Original Amateur Hour" on TV was Pop & maybe even Camp. He checked to be sure with Life …
REPORTER AT LARGE about travelling to Eskimo settlements in the Canadian Arctic where the Canadian government's Department of Northern Affairs and …
Lillian Ross meets the Italian publisher and movie producer Angelo Rizzoli at his international bookstore on Fifth Avenue, in this Talk story from 1965.
S. J. Perelman’s parody of Helen Gurley Brown's “Sex and the Single Girl.”
Continuation of REPORTER AT LARGE about the Dodoth, a tribe of pastoralists some twenty thousand in number, who live in the Lokoki district of Uganda. They…
REPORTER AT LARGE, continued, about the Dodoth, a pastoral tribe of Uganda. The Dodoth are polygamous & they have no villages. Each householder maintains a…
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Watts Towers and about their creator Sam Rodia, who spent 33 years building a number of tall towers and other structures in his…
In the spring of 1926 the author, a senior in the Dept. of Mining & Metallurgy at the Univ. of Wisconsin, received a letter offering her a job in a St. …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the women's reformatory in Framingham, Mass., officially known as the Mass. Correctional Institution, Framingham or M.C.I.F. …
The writer had lunch with Barney Bienstock, a TV actor. Barney & his wife were about to rent an apartment in the Casa Modiglianai, a new dwelling on First …
PROFILE of Dr. Marie Nyswander, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who is conducting an experiment in "store-front psychiatry," the treatment of drug addict …
PROFILE of Dr. Marie Nyswander, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who, under a program of research instituted by the Rockefeller Institute, isconducting …
Barbara Vaughan sat on the summit of Mount Tabor in Israel trying to separate the facts of her 3-week holiday-pilgrimmage to the Holy Land that were …
(A Draft of a Libretto for Still Another Meaningful Musical by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley.) Musical one-act play in which Half-Cocked, the Average …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the state of Negro civil rights in Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama. Writer last visited there in 1960 & finds things improved. …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Gibraltar. The Treaty of Utrecht, in 1713 ceded it to England from Spain and ever since Spain has been trying to get it back. Gen. …
Abdul Ramdez gave Arabic lessons to Frederick Hamilton, who was an official at the British Legation in Israeli Jerusalem & was now worried at the …
At a party in East Hampton, Long Island, Marlene Drentluss meets Roland Magruder, who claims to be a freelance write. Having decided from experience that …
The writer is telephoned by U.S. President Sarah Perkins, called Mom, early one January morning to tell him to come to the White House from NYC, where he …
REPORTER AT LARGE about official pressure on aritsts in Russia. Neizvestny differs in several respects from the beleagured cultural workers with hom he is …
REPORTER AT LARGE about several controversial Russian intellectuals. The regime fears its intellectuals and also regards them as instruments for pursuing …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the cultural freeze that gripped Russia during the winter of 1962-3 when writer was an American exchange student in Leningrad. The …
REPORTER AT LARGE about research on a form of sleep called Rapid Eye Movement Sleep. It is characterized by rapid eye movements, easily seen, & a number of…
Part 1 of Truman Capote’s story about a murdered family in Holcomb, Kansas.
Part 2 of Truman Capote’s legendary report about a murdered family in Holcomb, Kansas.
From 1965: Part 3 of Truman Capote’s legendary report about a murdered family in Holcomb, Kansas.
Part 4 of Truman Capote’s legendary report about a murdered family in Holcomb, Kansas.
REPORTER AT LARGE about a boat trip the author made down a section of the Green River near Pinedale in the Wind River Mountains of western Wyoming, with …
Lillian Ross’s 1965 Profile of the Italian director Federico Fellini, composed in the style of a movie script.
REPORTER AT LARGE about a return visit, after 3 yrs. to the George River settlement, Canada's first Eskimo cooperative society, located in northern …
Karl Rahner, a professor of dogmatic theology in Innsbruck and an official theologian to the Second Vatican Council, menti ned in PROFILE of the Right Rev.…
PROFILE of the Right Reverend John Robinson, Suffragan Bishop of Woolwich, the author of an article entitled "Our Image of God Must Go," and of a book …
PROFILE of the Right Reverend John Robinson, Suffragan Bishop of Woolwich, one of the radical theologians, and the author of "Honest To God. The Bishop …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Commonwealth immigrants in England. The Campaign Against Racial Discrimination known as CARD was founded last winter in the hope of…
Renata Adler’s 1965 piece about student protest movements and wide-scale protests against the Vietnam War, and the fierce factionalism among some of the activists.
Katharine S. White reviews a glut of garden books and how their pictures and illustrations shape our modern relationships with land.
On one of the closing days of Vatican Council II, in St. Peter's, a joint declaration by the Pope and the Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople, …