This World We Live In
Author reminisces about the years 1924-'25 when he was a newspaper reporter. In '24, he spent his homeymoon with his first, wife, Lois Little, coverint the Atlantic City beauty contest for the...
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The writer, who lives alone on the top floor of the Hotel Mansfield, on West 44th St., has been observing a puddle on the roof of the Princeton Club on W. 43rd St., which is also visible from his...
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Springtime in this city-and elsewhere-we imagine, marks the resurgence of empathy among men... We are thinking at the moment of a bus driver on upper Madison Avenue who, on a recent Monday, drew his...
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West Indian Intelligence: The cafeteria at the Minivielle & Chastanet Department Store, in Castries, St. Lucia, is closed for lunch every day between twelve-thirty and two.See the rest of the story...
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Anything that can put new life into a man - cause him to go around afterward with his shoulders thrown back and his head so lifted that it feels as if it were in the clouds - deserves the urgent...
View ArticleThe Big Little Man from Brooklyn—I
Seventy-eight years ago, on November 25, 1890, in one of a long row of red brick two-story houses in Brooklyn that had five gray stone steps leading up to the front doors, coal stoves for heat, and...
View ArticleTHE BIG LITTLE MAN FROM BROOKLYN
ANNALS OF IMPOSTURE about Stephen Jacob Weinberg, alias Stanley Clifford Weyman a famous impostor.See the rest of the story at newyorker.comRelated:Filthy Old New YorkBroken-Windows Comes to Park...
View ArticleThe Presbyterian Captives
When the author was young, Sunday afternoons were usually spent indoors with his large, staunchly Presbyterian family. One of his relatives would read aloud from the Bible, or, occasionally, from "The...
View ArticleMR. FIRST-NIGHTER
BEHIND THE SCENES excerpt from a PROFILE which ran June 15-July 20, 1940.See the rest of the story at newyorker.comRelated:Cartoons from the March 28, 2016, IssueComment from the March 28, 2016,...
View ArticleTHE BLOWING OF THE TOP OF PETER ROGER OBOE
THAT WAS A REPORTER AT WIT'S END about events that led up to the writer's accusing Admiral Nimitz of high treason in World War II.See the rest of the story at newyorker.com
View Article"Keejah," "Transfers," And Other Recent Works
(A Cluster Of All-Purpose Book Reviews For Those Who Miss, As Everybody Does, Their Sunday "Times") The writer composes a series of satirical book reviews …
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Incidental Intelligence: The Brown Shutters, a guest house in Bass River, on Cape God, has painted all its shutters gray.
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On an icy afternoon last week a small boy in a snowsuit stepped into the vestibule of an apartment house in the East Seventies. He struggled out of his …
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In a speech made at the 77th annual convention of the Amer Newspaper Publishers Association, of which Irwin Maier is president, he let a cat out of a bag …
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Incidental Intelligence: (Full Circle Division): At the Salt River Indian Reservation, near Scottsdale, Arizona, a group of thirty Indians of the Pima …
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In an ancient volume of Browning's poems at the Donnell Library Center, on W. 53 St., one of our correspondents came upon a memorandum that was, in …
View ArticleThey Could Have Danced All Night, And Did
(A Handy, All-Purpose Column On The Dance For Amateurs Of That Art Who Find It Unfeasible To Lift Their Sunday "Times" Or "Herald Tribune" From Vestibule …
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Springtime love scene overheard on a busy side street in Manhattan. Policeman: "That was jaywalking... I'll have to give you a ticket... Let me see …
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Chalked inscription found on a bright June morning on a Central Park pavement near the Reservoir: The little wee flower With the soft new dew, Shows what I…
View ArticleHow To Be Happy When Your Newsdealer Filches Your Sunday "Times Magazine"
The writer parodies the New York Sunday "Times Magazine" section in a series of all-purpose articles on: de Gaulle's successor, M.M. Pompflimnereaux; …
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