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Imaginary interview serving as a satire on all possible interviews with government officials.See the rest of the story at newyorker.comRelated:This Week in Fiction: Ann Beattie on How a Bumper Sticker...
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Succinct letter from the secretary of a London club to "The Occupier" of a certain residence: Dear Sir: Unfortunately, when we sent our letter checking up the addresses of members, we failed to put...
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Gastro-Intestinal Intelligence: A sign in the Air Force APO snack bar in Long Island City reads, "No Paper Bags to be Consumed in This Cafeteria."See the rest of the story at newyorker.com
View ArticleThe Fireflies
The writer is in a hospital in New York, convalescing. He finds out that Mrs. Carter, a woman he knew in Penang, Malaya, in the nineteen-twenties, is a patient in the same hospital. They send each...
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Overheard on the steps of Columbia's Low Memorial Library, one undergraduate to another, "I think it would be simple-minded to suppose that she just doesn't care for you. My hunch is it's the negative...
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We encountered a gentleman on E. 61 St. who said he'd read, a couple of years ago, our note on the lady who holds that the force of gravity is stronger in London than it is in N.Y. He said the lady is...
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Overheard on the eight-eighteen out of Rye, one briefcase-carrier to another: "Three hundred tons of steel have disappeared."See the rest of the story at newyorker.com
View ArticleQuong
The writer tells of a Chinese servant, Quong, he had in Bangkok in the 1930's. When Quong walked he made flapping sounds with his white canvas sneakers. The writer was 25, the editor-in-chief of the...
View ArticleThe Silent Sphinx
The writer sometimes wonders how long his heart will hold out. He quotes an article in the Herald Tribune on the studies of Dr. Isaac Starr, a research professor of therapeutics at the Univ. of Penn....
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Overheard on a sightseeing boat in Holland, one American girl, with a Southern accent, to another: "The main thing you've just got to know to understand Europe is that all Europeans believe in free...
View ArticleTHE EDINBURGH CAPER.
A REPORTER AT LARGE. In the form of imaginary testimony before two officers of the Central Intelligence Agency, the writer tells of "The Edinburgh Caper," which took place when he was vacationing in...
View ArticleOn Horatio Street
The writer recalls a flirtation in the Spring of 1927, when he was a reporter on the "World," & lived on Horatio St. He was 22 & it was his day off. At Sheridan Square he saw a pretty girl...
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Overheard in a doctor's waiting room, doctor to patient: "One other thing. You'll find that the salt substitute I've recommended for you doesn't taste anything at all like salt."See the rest of the...
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Overheard on Harvard Square, in Cambridge, bespectacled Radcliffe girl to fellow-student: "I wouldn't take science if they didn't make me, but I'd regret it later."See the rest of the story at...
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Overheard at the Palmer Stadium, in Princeton, last Saturday, girl to girl: "Who do you think is here? George Atterbury! With pleurisy!See the rest of the story at newyorker.com
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Overheard on Fifth Avenue, a cheerful soprano voice: "It's nice to see the Christmas decorations going up. Thanksgiving will soon be here."See the rest of the story at newyorker.com
View ArticleAn Interesting Case Of Too Much Food In “Life,” Or Vice Versa
Casual about the writer's reaction to reading a "special issue" of Life Magazine about food. The issue was titled "Bounty of Food," & dated November 23, 1962. He has not been able to take any...
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Excerpt from a legal document that come to the attention of a lawyer friend of ours: 7. That all of said above-mentioned parties are of sound mind and of full age, except the Chemical Bank New York...
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In Kanpur, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, in India, there are six or eight American families whose heads are helping to bring into being the new Indian Institute of Technology. They discovered that the...
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