REPORTER AT LARGE about the renewal project in South End Boston and about nine members of what was known in that settlement as the Older Adults Group - …
Best New Yorker Articles of 1966
Explore 53 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1966 issues.
53 picks · 53 issues · Top author: Joseph Wechsberg (4)
Most featured section: Profiles
Featured Picks
Calvin Tomkins profiles the architect, inventor, and visionary.
PROFILE of Enzo Ferrari, maker of Ferrari autos at a factory, near Modena, Italy. The Ferrari is regarded as something special - its whole physiognomy …
Nat Hentoff’s 1966 Profile of Maurice Sendak, the author of “Where the Wild Things Are.”
One murky January day Mr. and Mrs. Proctor are returning from her nephew's wedding. They stop for lunch at Mom's Colonial Diner, a greasy-spoon …
PROFILE of Hambros Bank Ltd., London, tells about a loan the Finance Minister of Sardinia, Count di Cavour obtained from Hambros. In 1851, the Kingdom of …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Red China from sources gathered in Hong Kong by professional China watchers who, through interviews, through collecting, reading …
PROFILE of Otto Preminger, producer & director of 28 films, done in the form of a film scenario. Last Nov. Preminger brought suit against Columbia Pictures…
E. B. White on the New England ornithologist Edward Howe Forbush.
REPORTER AT LARGE about a program developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology designed to place highly qualified young men in specific …
How doth the city cram itself with people, that was full of pleasant places! how is she become as an urban redevelopment center! 2 The builder hath …
PROFILE of Frank Learoyd Boyden, headmaster of Deerfield Academy, a preparatory school for boys in Deerfield, Mass. He has been headmaster since 1902 and …
The writer, an Englishwoman, reminisces about a visit to a home in Connecticut in the Prohibition era. She had read about New England in the spinster …
Fiction, from 1966: It had the element of experience—perhaps even of truth, and I believed, in those days, that truth is stranger than fiction.
PROFILE of Siegmund G. Warburg, one of the most powerful merchant bankers in the City of London, and member of a powerful banking family on the Continent. …
Fiction, from 1966: “It was agreed that since the meaning of the balloon could never be known absolutely, extended discussion was pointless.”
REPORTER AT LARGE about Red China. Description of Peking. The wide avenues, the new buildings, the old gates, temples and palaces are but a very loose grid…
PROFILE of Raffaele Mattioli, chairman of the board of directors of the Banca Commerciale Italiana, or BCI, in Milan, whos destiny he has guided for more …
REPORTER AT LARGE about oranges, their varieties, their history, & how they are grown, particularly in Florida. The first known reference to oranges …
REPORTER AT LARGE about oranges, their history, & the citrus industry in Florida, Gives history of Indian River, in Florida, from which some of the …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the Job Corps Center at Camp Kilmer, N.J., which uses part of the old Army post. The Job Corps is a national program …
Amalia Moraru comes to the fortune-teller, Madame Gisele, to ask about her enigmatic friend, Marie. All three are Rumanian expatriates in Paris. Maire, …
Speakers for such diverse causes as the Pakistani Forum, the Hyde Park Tories, a Welsh republican, an Irish Jesuit, the Pan-African Union, etc., were at …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, or Micronesia. When the U. N. was se up at the end of the war, its charter stipulated …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Micronesia, a U.N. Trust Territory consisting of widely scattered Pacific islands administered by the U. S. The Ponape …
PROFILE of Henry (Red) Allen, the 58-year-old New Orleans trumpeter & singer who is among the last of the first-rate New Orleans musicians. Writer visited …
Barnett Frummer worries about not dreaming and thinks about Rosalie Mondle, whom he does not have the courage to call. To prove that he is awake, he dials …
William tries to recover the sensation of Oxenhope, Scotland, at the age of 64, after a bout of typhoid. He had experienced it last at the age of 17, when …
Stuart Fenwick, a bachelor who has known very few girls for a long time, runs a summer resort called Vacances Pax in France. He had started it when the …
Flinders, an agricultural conservationalist, has worked two years in Arabia on a Reforestation Project for the Organization (the U.N., although it is not …
A 40-year-old reminisces about his childhood and the times when he used to tidy up the bedroom when his mother, now dead, was ill. Each time he did so, she…
REPORTER AT LARGE about the whooping crane and the near-extinction of the species. All but one of the whooping cranes in captivity are now in the Audubon …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the discovery and excavation of a Minoan palace at Kato Zakro, in Eastern Crete, which dates to the New Palace Era (1600-1450 B.C.)…
Clive, a ten-year-old white South African boy in Europe with family, is befriended by Matt, also ten, a rich American touring with parents who are both …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the interaction of group identity and political change among American Jews who migrate to Israel. The author, a Jew who feels …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the interaction of political change & group identity as shown by American Jews who migrate to Israel. Tells of problems of living …
THE SPORTING SCENE about the 1966 competition for the World Cup in soccer (football), won by England, which was also the host country. The competition was …
PROFILE of Bishop Homer A. Tomlinson, who plans to crown himself King of the World or King of All Nations of Men in Jerusalem, Oct. 7, 1966. As Bishop and …
PROFILE of Los Angeles, a huge, dynamic city with a population of nearly 3 million. Though built on a near-desert, it is the most far-flung of the …
PROFILE OF Los Angeles. There has been a burst of High Cultural activity recently Less than 2 yrs. ago a new Music Center was opened in the old downtown …
PROFILE of Los Angeles. One of the subversive groups active in the state is the John Birch Society, which Ronald Reagan, candidate for Governor, has …
The narrator is pressagent for the play, "Let's Skip Dinner" which Ned Bluestone is producing. When he tells Bluestone the play flopped in Boston, …
REPORTER AT LARGE about East Africa National Parks and their inmates. An african animal that has been loathed and feared almost as much as the hyena, and …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Le Quang, a thirteen-year old orphaned Vietnamese ice-cream vender. He was born about forty miles from Danang, in the village of …
Jeremy Bernstein’s 1966 Profile of the director of “Dr. Strangelove” and other films.
PROFILE of the Norwegian America Line's new ship the Sagafjord and its maiden Atlantic crossing. Among the passengers were Mr. and Mrs. Lorentzen, a …
PROFILE of Robert Cooper Scull, taxicab-fleet-owner and Pop Art collector. In '61, at the gala opening of a junk-sculpture show, Scull met a young man …
PROFILE of the Smithsonian Institution, in Wash., D.C. It owes its name & existence to a contingent residuary bequest, eventually amounting to …
PROFILE of the Smithsonian Institution. It had been established by Congress for only a few months in 1846 when Spencer Fullerton Baird, who was 24, wrote …
REPORTER AT LARGE about fighting Vietcong and Vietnamese forces in the Demilitarized Zone -Operations Hastings and Prarie, tells about a four-man "recon" …
Roger Angell imagines a literary feud sparked by “ ’Twas the Night Before Christmas.”
Tullius receives another letter from Race, the semi-employed actor. After an aside about the new governor (Ronald Reagon), his letter is about trying to …