Gitta, a young actress, had been brought up by her alcoholic aunt, and she was now living with her 39 year old lover who had left his wife and children to …
Best New Yorker Articles of 1969
Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1969 issues.
52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: John McPhee (4)
Most featured section: Fiction
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Cynthia had been a professional singer and her second husband, Larry, knew that she needed an audience, but after two years of sharing her interest in TV, …
PROFILE of Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, president and publisher of the N.Y. "Times". He was born Feb. 5, 1926; was brought up in a big house at 5 E. 80 St. He …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Emmaus House, a radical Catholic community in East Harlem. It is under the guidance of three unconventional Catholic priests. One …
Born with a full head of hair, weighing 14 pounds, someone remarked at Belle Minuit's birth that she would never be right, and her mother did not …
When the author first became solvent enough to take cabs in New York, she was always being forced to agree with crank drivers who lectured her on various …
Last week, after 52% of the adult population of Gerber's Corners, Mo. had admitted that the noise from the hypersonic boom tests over their town was no…
Talk story about the 2-day American Institute of Planner's Conference at the Waldorf-Astoria entitled "Building the Future Environment - An Atlantic …
PROFILE of Roger Miller, country-music composer and singer. When Charles Mingus, the virtuoso jazz bassist and composer, first heard miller's songs, he…
PROFILE of Dr. Konrad Z. Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, who is the ethological co-director of the Max Planck Institute in Germany. He played a large part in …
Satire on Reader's Digest anecdotes. Confrontation between small town traffic policeman and the First Selectman's hippie son; portrait of …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Dead Sea Scrolls, which supplements the writer's 1955 article. An insistence on postdating the scrolls, in defiance of the …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Dead Sea Scrolls. Writer says that the ordinary, non-scholarly Jew knows that the Torah, the Prophets & the Writings, the 3 …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Dead Sea Scrolls. Prof. Yigael Yadin knew for 7 years of the existence of a certain scroll in the possession of the Syrian …
REPORTER AT LARGE about scheduled manned moon-landings beginning presumably with Apollo 11, in mid-July. Detailed plans for the flight; the training the …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the projected Apollo moon-landing, which may take place this autumn. The two astronauts may leave their spacecraft, in order to go …
Author discusses and reminisces about wines and other stimulants as well as non-alcoholic potables. She deplores the amount of chemicals and pollutants …
PROFILE of Mayor Lindsay. Among those he considers especially loyal to him is Mitch Ginsberg. Ginsberg headed the Dept. of Welfare from Feb., 1966 to Dec.,…
PROFILE of Mayor Lindsay. Last fall there was a strike by the United Federation of Teachers, who charged that 83 teachers were in danger of being removed …
The author, a bearded abstract artist, was summoned to the White House one April morning 5 years ago. He wondered what the President, a Westerner of earthy…
REPORTER AT LARGE about the regime of Pres. Sukarno from 1950 to 1965. Following the defeat of a Comunist revolt in East Java, in Sept, 1948, in which a …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Indonesia under the leadership of Pres. Suharto, which began in 1966. The mass of nominal Muslims, which make up 90% of the …
John McPhee on how the rivalry between Arthur Ashe and Clark Graebner made them both better tennis players.
Part 2 of John McPhee’s article about how the rivalry between Arthur Ashe and Clark Graebner made them both better tennis players.
Part 1 of Peter Matthiessen’s Profile of the organizer discusses Chavez’s launch of the grape workers’ boycott, headquartered in Delano, California, his month-long fast, and his visit with Robert F. Kennedy.
Part 2 of Peter Matthiessen’s Profile of Cesar Chavez discusses the organizer’s youth as a farm worker, in California, his program of nonviolence, and the foundation of the United Farm Workers.
PROFILE of Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada. Among other aims he wishes to reform the Canadian constitution to include a provision naming both …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Paris peace talks and the present situation in Vietnam. An uncertain element at present is the manner in which the South …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to India in 1966. Writer journeyed to some of the isolated regions along the Sino-Indian border in the Himalayas. Through …
The moon, it turns out, is a great place for men. One sixth gravity must be a lot of fun, and when Armstrong and Aldrin went into their bouncy little …
Story about Wang, the 7th son of a good family in the Ch'ing Dynasty, who obtained an audience with Master Jen Hsing, the noted sage and sorcerer, to …
Jeremy Bernstein’s 1969 Profile of Arthur C. Clarke, the author of “2001: A Space Odyssey,” which was adapted for film by Stanley Kubrick.
In Hollywood a cluster of hotel bungalows on Sunset Boulevard called the Garden of Allah was built by Russian actress Alla Nazimova in the twenties. Orgies…
PROFILE of the 75-year-old French movie maker, Jean Renoir.
Ellen Willis attends the King’s first concert at the International Hotel, in this Rock report, from 1969. “Garish is beautiful.”
Accounts of the peacefulness and generosity of the festivalgoers are all true, Ellen Willis writes—but they have tended to miss the point.
Scenes from the life of an English family living in the country just before World War I and during the war. The family consisted of Papa, Mama, George in …
Francis Steegmuller’s 1969 profile of Barbette, the trapeze artist who always performed his first acts dressed in a ball gown and served as a muse for the writer Jean Cocteau.
When the author was a teenager he worked Saturdays for 6 months at a dept. store. He submitted to pranks by the shoe salesmen, became exhausted by toting …
Lou and Tom Brideson are moving from New York City, their home of 10 yrs,, to Texas. At a farewell party for them in Conn. Lou gravitates to the kitchen. …
Daniel Lang reports on the rape and murder of a Vietnamese girl by four American soldiers.
PROFILE of attorney Charles Morgan, Jr., 39, head of the American Civil Liberties Union's Southern Regional Office in Atlanta, a post he has held since…
The author sympathizes with an Englishwoman he read about in a letter in the London "Times" who has trouble getting her au pairs, girls imported from the …
The author, an Englishman, is in bounty Wexford, Ireland, walking to Rosslare to get the boat home. In the Sportsman's Bar it is recommended that he …
Author reminisces about his college roommate of 20 yrs. ago, Ed Popper, who had read everything, it seemed. Ed came fron Nebraska, & his companions in …
A short story based on an item in the "Kansas City Star." A Kansas couple, Joseph & Diane Edwards, recorded every argument they had with each other, …
"The human memory is a wonderful development but its fallibility is infinite." This drove man to construct repositories for his archives, but the …
PROFILE of Colonsay, a small island in the Atlantic, 25 miles west of the Scottish mainland. It is one of the Hebrides, in the islands of Argyll. More than…
PROFILE of Colonsay, an island off Scotland, in the Hebrides. It is owned by Lord Strathcona. The previous laird, his father, was Donald Third Baron …
PROFILE of Bernie Glow, a lead trumpet player. He has recorded more than any dozen recording stars put together. The only way an American can be sure of …
The narrator's story is set in Southampton, England, and tells of his marriage with Molly, who (though a captain's daughter) despises the sailing …