James Stevenson on the 1972 campaign of George McGovern.
Best New Yorker Articles of 1972
Explore 53 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1972 issues.
53 picks · 53 issues · Top author: E. J. Kahn (4)
Most featured section: Profiles
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Writer discovered an old copy of Jules Verne's "Around the World in Eighty Days" in a tool shed on his farm in Pa. He decides to reread the book. He …
PROFILE of British actor Nicol Williamson, noted for his interpretation of Hamlet, in both the stage & film versions. Prime Minister Harold Wilson, …
Seymour M. Hersh’s 1972 piece about a mass killing of civilians during the Vietnam War.
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Army's investigation of the Son My massacres of S. Vietnamese civilians (women, children, & old men) by US troops, on Mar. …
Writer tells about his steaming t rip down the Persian Gulf on the S.S. Choleria, dreaming about the delicatessen food of Manhattan, for which the …
Renata Adler on watching “Days of Our Lives,” “Another World,” and other daytime soaps.
REPORTER AT LARGE about Bangladesh & the India-Pakistan war. Tells about the preparations for war on both sides, & how Mrs. Gandhi tried to avert it, …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a towboat trip down the Missouri & Mississippi Rivers, from Kansas City to Baton Rouge. Tells about the freight haulage on …
PROFILE of Hawaii. Traces the history of the 8 major islands--Oahu, Kauai, Maui, Molokai, Hawaii, Lanai, Niihau, & Kahoolawe--from Capt. James Cook's …
Janet Flanner remembers her years with Ernest Hemingway, Djuna Barnes, and other literary greats.
Pauline Kael’s 1972 review of Francis Ford Coppola’s classic mob movie, based on the Mario Puzo book and starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton, and Robert Duvall.
A young man in England visits his father, who's had an operation for arthritis, & now must use crutches until he can walk again. His mother tells him …
PROFILE of Metropolitan Opera star Joan Sutherland. Miss Sutherland sings bel-canto opera, which had been revived two decades ago by the famous (soprano …
PROFILE of John Service, retired diplomat & China expert, who, between 1945 & the 1950s, was unremittingly harassed by Sen. Jos. McCarthy & his …
PROFILE of Saigon, S. Vietnam. Tells about the French colonization of Vietnam, & of the Japanese invasion & control of Indo-China during W.W. II.
Fiction, from 1972: “ ‘We are like other towns, except that we are perfect,’ he said. ‘Our discontent can only be held in check by perfection.’ ”
PROFILE of the writer's father, an E. Indian doctor, Amolak Ram Mehta, called Daddyji. In 1923 he went to America for postgraduate work in medicine on …
PROFILE of Dick Cavett, host of ABC's late night talk program, the "Dick Cavett Show." Cavett is 35. The show has been running 2 1/2 yrs. and is seen …
Talk story about a visit to the chocolate factory in Hershey, Pa. and interview with Bill Wagner, who for 45 years has been tasting chocolate in the …
From 1972: Calvin Trillin writes that there are crawfish (or crayfish, or crawdads) all over the country, but outside of Louisiana they are all but ignored.
REPORTER AT LARGE about Franconia College, a lively, coeducational, experimental, not yet fully accredited New Hampshire institution that began operation …
PROFILE of Maurice Frederick Strong, an Under-Secretary-General of the UNited Nations & secretary-general of the 1st U.N. Conference on the Human …
It is night. The eleven o'clock news is in progress. A commercial for natural gas comes on. It includes a GRANDMOTHERLY WOMAN and a SMALL BOY. Their …
PROFILE of Cyril M. Harris, Columbia U. professor, acoustics consultant & noise-control expert. Born in Detroit in 1917, raised in California, he has lived…
Margo, an American, has been abroad for 3 years and is now working in Livorno, Italy. On a train ride she is attracted by a boy and starts a conversation …
Things that you lost were guiding you. And you tried to replace them only sometimes you lost the replacements too even though you had grown to like the …
One sunny Sunday afternoon Mrs. Ganley, with her daughter, Angela, visits her husband in a mental institution. He had had a nervous breakdown after getting…
Story about a young man's experience in the Army. It was easy to get in. A quick physical and then a written exam on the history of military flowers. …
PROFILE of Giuseppe Cipriani, of Venice, honored by the Italian gov't. for his contribution to tourism. He manages the city's most fashionable …
ANNALS OF WAR about the Vietnam war since 1969, under the Nixon Admin. Since 1954, the U.S. has had only one concern & that was the war to destroy the …
A REPORTER AT LARGE about the 51st annual Gallup Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial held for four days every Aug. in Gallup, New Mexico. Ike Merry is a former …
A mother and her two young daughters sailed on a passenger freighter from San Francisco to Antwerp. There are several old ladies on the ship; the girls …
PROFILE of Dr. Neal E. Miller of Rockefeller University, one of the best-known experimental psychologists in the country. Miller has been experimenting …
George W. S. Trow’s 1974 account of the wedding of Sly Stone and Kathy Silva, at Madison Square Garden.
PROFILE of Marilyn Horne, the opera singer considered by many to possess the greatest voice in the world. Miss Horne, who is 38, may be regarded as being …
A REPORTER AT LARGE about the game of Monopoly and the city in which it is set, Atlantic City, N. J. Atlantic City was designed in 1852 by an immigrant …
Tells about the tragedy of the 20th Olympiad when Arab terrorists scaled the fence around the Olympic Village & held members of the Israeli team hostage, …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the wildlife of the Serengeti in East Africa. Tells about the problems of poaching, for food & profit. To contain the natural …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the East African Bush people, the Hadza, many of whom still live in the wild near Yaida Chini, Tanzania. Tells about the different …
Part 1 of Brendan Gill’s classic Profile of the legendary film and stage star Tallulah Bankhead, exploring her Alabama upbringing, the garden parties, which inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” that she attended as a young actress, and her rise to fame in nineteen-twenties London.
PROFILE of the late actress, Tallulah Bankhead. In 1931 she left London where she had been a sensation for 8 yrs for NY. Paramount Pictures offered her a …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the desertion from the Navy by a young man, Harry Taggart (a pseudonym), for over 2 1/2 years, in this country & in Canada. The …
Synopses of five lesser-known ballets. The first is "Dmitri" recounting the love story of Natasha who is sad because her father has been sent to fight in …
PROFILE of John D. Rockefeller, 3rd. The main interests of the 66-year-old philanthropist now seem to focus on the Population Council, established in 1952 …
Henry S. F. Cooper, Jr.,’s 1972 chronicle of NASA’s Apollo 13 moon mission, during which three astronauts, John L. Swigert, James A. Lovell, Jr., and Fred W. Haise, Jr., were almost lost.
PROFILE of Mabel Mercer, who at 72, remains the matchless but largely unknown "doyenne" of American popular singing. She has been holding forth at the St. …
PROFILE of the Martin family, pieds noirs, or French Algerians, who fled Algeria in 1962, when that country gained independence, & now live in a village in…
Part 1 of Jervis Anderson’s Profile of the activist, who founded the country’s first Black labor union, vied with Marcus Garvey, and led the March on Washington, where M.L.K. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
Hendrik Hertzberg visits the couple in their New York apartment and recording studio.
PROFILE of A. Philip Randolph, black civil rights leader, aged 83. In 1935 Randolph was asked to head the new National Negro Congress. He declined at first…
PROFILE of Kal Rudman, who promotes records & picks hits in the AM-Top-Forty-radio section of the popular-music business. At 42 & a former disc jockey, he …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the closing of the Lobster, a restaurant on W. 45th St., between Sixth & Seventh Avenues, which was established in 1919. Writer, in…