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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

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RHYTHM IN MY MIND.
Whitney Balliett · Profiles · January 2

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 …

RESOURCES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
E. J. Kahn · Profiles · January 9

PROFILE of David Rockefeller, president of Chase Manhattan Bank, speaks of the power directors of Chase Manhattan supposedly wield. The Rickefellers …

RESOURCES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
E. J. Kahn · Profiles · January 16

PROFILE of David Rockefeller, president of Chase Manhatta Bank, tells about the Rockefeller family holdings at Seal Harbor; the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller …

A Sense of Where You Are
John McPhee · Profiles · January 23

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.

Comsat
John Brooks · A Reporter at Large · January 30

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Communications Satellite Corp. or Comsat. It had been established by an Act of Congress-the Communications Satellite Act of …

NOT SEEN AND/OR LESS SEEN
· Profiles · February 6

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.…

Christmas Eve
Anne Fremantle · Fiction · February 13

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 …

The New Sound
Renata Adler · Onward and Upward with the Arts · February 20

Renata Adler on radio and the history of rock and roll.

Heart of Darkness
F. P. Tullius · Fiction · February 27

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. …

The Indian Uprising
Donald Barthelme · Fiction · March 6

Fiction, from 1965: “But it is you I want now, here in the middle of this Uprising, with the streets yellow and threatening.”

ASCENT WHYMPER AND MUMMERY
Jeremy Bernstein · A Reporter at Large · March 13

REPORTER AT LARGE about Chamonix; the surrounding mountain and the history of Alpine mountaineering. Before 1850 the British had done no significant …

ASCENT MOI, JE OPTIMISTE
Gereny Bernstein · A Reporter at Large · March 20

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 …

JUNK.
Robert Rice · A Reporter at Large · March 27

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 …

Orphans’ Progress
Mavis Gallant · Fiction · April 3

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.

The Selma March
Renata Adler · Letter from Selma · April 10

Renata Adler's 1965 report on the civil-rights march from Selma to Montgomery.

Barnett Frummer and Rosalie Mondle Meet Superman: A Love Story
Calvin Trillin · Fiction · April 17

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 …

A CHANGE OF TASTE
Edith Iglauer · A Reporter at Large · April 24

REPORTER AT LARGE about travelling to Eskimo settlements in the Canadian Arctic where the Canadian government's Department of Northern Affairs and …

Molto, Molto, Molto
Lillian Ross · The Talk of the Town · May 1

Lillian Ross meets the Italian publisher and movie producer Angelo Rizzoli at his international bookstore on Fifth Avenue, in this Talk story from 1965.

Sex and the Single Boy
S. J. Perelman · Other · May 8

S. J. Perelman’s parody of Helen Gurley Brown's “Sex and the Single Girl.”

III-THE HERDSMEN.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas · A Reporter at Large · May 15

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…

IV - THE HERDSMEN,
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas · A Reporter at Large · May 22

REPORTER AT LARGE, continued, about the Dodoth, a pastoral tribe of Uganda. The Dodoth are polygamous & they have no villages. Each householder maintains a…

I KNOW I WANT TO DO SOMETHING
Calvin Trillin · A Reporter at Large · May 29

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…

The Inner Workings of the Atom
Emily Hahn · Fiction · June 5

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. …

PRISON CHRONICLE.
Joan Colebrook · A Reporter at Large · June 12

REPORTER AT LARGE about the women's reformatory in Framingham, Mass., officially known as the Mass. Correctional Institution, Framingham or M.C.I.F. …

Caveat Emptor, Fortissimo Ex Philadelphia
S. J. Perelman · Fiction · June 19

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 …

I-THE TREATMENT OF PATIENTS
Nat Hentoff · Profiles · June 26

PROFILE of Dr. Marie Nyswander, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who is conducting an experiment in "store-front psychiatry," the treatment of drug addict …

THE TREATMENT OF PATIENTS
Nat Hentoff · Profiles · July 3

PROFILE of Dr. Marie Nyswander, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who, under a program of research instituted by the Rockefeller Institute, isconducting …

The Mandelbaum Gate: Barbara Vaughan's Identity
Muriel Spark · Fiction · July 10

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 …

Stop the Greasepaint, I Want to Smell the Crowd!
Emerson Beauchamp · Fiction · July 17

(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 …

A BREAK WITH TRADITION,
Bernard Taper · A Reporter at Large · July 24

REPORTER AT LARGE about the state of Negro civil rights in Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama. Writer last visited there in 1960 & finds things improved. …

IN PERPETUUM.
Alastair Reid · A Reporter at Large · July 31

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. …

The Mandelbaum Gate: Abdul's Orange Grove
Muriel Spark · Fiction · August 7

Abdul Ramdez gave Arabic lessons to Frederick Hamilton, who was an official at the British Legation in Israeli Jerusalem & was now worried at the …

Roland Magruder, Freelance Writer
Calvin Trillin · Fiction · August 14

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 …

Close to Mom
St. Clair McKelway · Fiction · August 21

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 …

FREEZE AND THAW: THE ARTISTS IN RUSSIA
Ralph Blum · A Reporter at Large · August 28

REPORTER AT LARGE about official pressure on aritsts in Russia. Neizvestny differs in several respects from the beleagured cultural workers with hom he is …

II-FREEZE AND THAW: THE ARTIST IN RUSSIA.
Ralph Blum · A Reporter at Large · September 4

REPORTER AT LARGE about several controversial Russian intellectuals. The regime fears its intellectuals and also regards them as instruments for pursuing …

III-FREEZE AND THAW: THE ARTIST IN SOVIET RUSSIA
Ralph Blum · A Reporter at Large · September 11

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 …

A THIRD STATE OF EXISTENCE.
Calvin Trillin · A Reporter at Large · September 18

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…

In Cold Blood—I: The Last to See Them Alive
Truman Capote · Annals of Crime · September 25

Part 1 of Truman Capote’s story about a murdered family in Holcomb, Kansas.

In Cold Blood—II: Persons Unknown
Truman Capote · Annals of Crime · October 2

Part 2 of Truman Capote’s legendary report about a murdered family in Holcomb, Kansas.

In Cold Blood—III: Answers
Truman Capote · Annals of Crime · October 9

From 1965: Part 3 of Truman Capote’s legendary report about a murdered family in Holcomb, Kansas.

In Cold Blood—IV: The Corner
Truman Capote · Annals of Crime · October 16

Part 4 of Truman Capote’s legendary report about a murdered family in Holcomb, Kansas.

SOMETHING ABOUT A RIVER,
Berton Roueché · A Reporter at Large · October 23

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 …

10 1/2
Lillian Ross · Profiles · October 30

Lillian Ross’s 1965 Profile of the Italian director Federico Fellini, composed in the style of a movie script.

RETURN TO GEORGE RIVER.
Edith Iglauer · A Reporter at Large · November 6

REPORTER AT LARGE about a return visit, after 3 yrs. to the George River settlement, Canada's first Eskimo cooperative society, located in northern …

The New Theologian: I - Ecce Homo
Ved Mehta · Profiles · November 13

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.…

THE NEW THEOLOGIAN "The Ekklesia"
Ved Mehta · Profiles · November 20

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 …

THE NEW THEOLOGIAN
Ved Mehta · Profiles · November 27

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 …

COLOR IN THE MOTHER COUNTRY
Calvin Trillin · A Reporter at Large · December 4

REPORTER AT LARGE about Commonwealth immigrants in England. The Campaign Against Racial Discrimination known as CARD was founded last winter in the hope of…

The Price of Peace Is Confusion
Renata Adler · A Reporter at Large · December 11

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.

An Idea Which We Have Called Nature
Katharine S. White · Onward and Upward in the Garden · December 18

Katharine S. White reviews a glut of garden books and how their pictures and illustrations shape our modern relationships with land.

Letter from Vatican City
Xavier Rynne · Letter from Vatican City · December 25

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, …

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