1964/03/07 — Cover by Charles Saxon Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town The Habit by John Cheever In the Cabot Straight a poem by R.P. Lister L’Americano by William Murray Reincarnation a poem by James Dickey A Reporter at Large: Fifteen Thousand Quarts of Air by Edith Iglauer The Theatre: The Great [...]
1964/02/29 — Cover by Garrett Price Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town Three More Hats by Roger Angell Dinosaurs a poem by Carolyn Stoloff An Act of Reparation by Sylvia Townsend Warner A Hill a poem by Anthony Hecht Profiles: Moving Out about artist Robert Rauschenberg by Calvin Tompkins The Theatre: Good [...]
1964/02/15 — Cover by William Steig Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town Adventures of a People Buff by Peter de Vries The Murmurers (Tobago) a poem by Josephine Jacobsen Giving by Dean Doner Spindrift a poem by Galway Kinnell Profiles: The Honored Society — Part 2 of 3 by Norman Lewis about [...]
1964/02/08 — Cover by Abe Birnbaum Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town Twin Beds in Rome by John Updike Time’s Arrow a poem by Louis Coxe English Mosaic by Sylvia Townsend Warner In the X-Ray Room a poem by Howard Moss Profiles: The Honored Society — Part 1 by Norman Lewis about [...]
1956/10/27 — Cover by Abe Birnbaum Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “The Best Four Years” by St. Clair McKelway “A Letter for Allhallows” a poem by Peter Kane Dufault “The Beam” by Nancy Hale “Old Faces of ’56″ a poem by John Updike Onward and Upward With the Arts – Porgy [...]
1956/08/11 — Cover by Perry Barlow Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “Further Fables for Our Time” by James Thurber (one page) Japanese Prints by Reiko Hatsumi “The Strange Case of the Lucrative Compromise” a poem by Ogden Nash Profiles: Nagelmackers’ Way about Leo Cesoli is by Joseph Wechsberg The Current Cinema [...]
1956/02/25 — Eustace Tilly anniversary cover by Rea Irvin Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “Caveat Emptor” by Frank Sullivan “Anybody for Money?” a poem by Ogden Nash In Italy by Mavis Gallant “Jet-Vapor Trail” a poem by Peter Kane Default Profiles: Yrs. Truly, A. Lincoln about Joseph Cosey by John Kobler [...]
1953/08/22 — Cover by Arthur Getz Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “O Youth and Beauty!” by John Cheever “Goodbye Now, Or, Pardon My Gauntlet” a poem by Ogden Nash The Pilgrimage by William Maxwell “Overture” a poem by Robert Hillyer Profiles: Cit about George Hervey Hallett, Jr. is by Dwight MacDonald [...]
1953/06/13 — Cover by Roger Duvoisin Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “A Kitchen Knife” by Sylvia Townsend Warner “Family Tour” a poem by Anne Hyde Greet The Presbyterian Nimrods by St. Clair McKelway Our Footloose Correspondents – A Dash of Tabasco by John McNulty “Tom Fool at Jamaica” by Marianne Moore [...]
1953/05/02 — Cover by Arthur Getz Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “Fall Guy” by Peter De Vries “Meditations During a Permanent Wave” a poem by Phyllis McGinley The Farangi – Part 2: Lord of My Soul by Anne Sinclair Mehdevi “Lumber of Spring” a poem by Anne Ridler Annals of Crime [...]
1953/04/25 — Cover by Ilonka Karasz Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town The Farangi — Part 1: Dust on My Head by Anne Sinclair Mehdevi “Recall” a poem by Reed Whittemore Is There A King Snake, In Your House? by Geoffrey T. Hellman Profiles – Part 2:Fiendish about Roland Butler by Robert [...]
1953/04/18 — Cover by Garrett Price Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town De Gustibus Ain’t What Dey Used to Be by S.J. Perelman “To the Lido With Fido” a poem by David McCord The Oracle by Robert M. Coates “The Explorers” a poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich Profiles – Part 1: Fiendish [...]
1953/03/07 — Cover by Leonard Dove Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “Spry Old Character” by Elizabeth Taylor (the writer, not the actress) “Everybody Wants to Get into the Baedeker” a poem by Ogden Nash Miserliness Begins at Home by Geoffrey T. Hellman Profiles – The Swan in the “Mirror” about Nick [...]
1953/02/07 — Cover by Abe Birnbaum Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “The Morning After the Big Fire” by Maeve Brennan “Tweedledee and Tweedledoom” a poem by Ogden Nash The Sunny Banks of the River Lethe by Irwin Shaw “The Phenomenon” a poem by Karl Shapiro Profiles: Lilt about May Gadd by [...]
1946/10/19 — Cover by Constantin Alajalov Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “Ellie” by John O’Hara He’s the Kinda Character Who Burns the Candle from Both Sides by Arthur Kober “Landscape, Or Portrait” a poem by Rolfe Humphries Making a Man Out of Him by John J. Espey Shakespeare One Better by [...]
1944/08/26 — Cover by Will Cotton Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town Full-page cartoon by Whitney Darrow, Jr. Poor Everybody by Robert McLaughlin “Aria” a poem by Rolfe Humphries A Guide to Literary Pilgrimage by James Thurber Profiles: Public Relations — Part 2 of 4 — by Alva Johnston about Russell Birdwell [...]
1944/08/05 — Cover by Barbara Shermund Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town Full-page cartoon by Peter Arno The Cherboors by James Thurber The Looters by Emily Hahn “There’ll Always Be a Xanthippe” a poem by Stanley Walker Profiles: The Regular by George Woodward features Staff Sergeant Joseph P. Prendiville “Invitation” is a [...]
1944/08/12 — Cover by Will Cotton Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “The Writing Public” cartoon with caption is by Gluyas Williams We’re Proud of You, Boy by Lawrence Williams What a Man Would Do by Robert M. Coates Full-page cartoon by Whitney Darrow, Jr. Profiles: The Young Man Behind Plexiglass is [...]
1944/07/29 — Cover by Tibor Gergely Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town Italy is two pages of cartoons by Saul Steinberg Boys Will Be Boys by Elizabeth Warner “For My Ancestors” is a poem by Rolfe Humphries An Article of Faith by Sally Benson Profiles: Socko! by Philip Hamburger is about Martin [...]
1944/07/22 — Cover by Constantin Alajalov Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town Travellers is 2-pages of cartoons, I cannot make out the artist’s signature though My Brother Osong’s Career in Politics by Carlos Bulosan Gunners’ Passage by Irwin Shaw “The Summer Landscape, Or, The Dragon’s Teeth” is a poem by Rolfe Humphries [...]
1944/07/15 — D-Day cover by Rea Irvin shows King George VI with President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, the General Eisenhower and Montgomery across from them in the top pane; Soldiers on June 6 in the middle pane; a scene from June 7 in the bottom left pane with Adolf Hitler under his chair in the [...]
1944/07/08 — Cover by Mary Petty Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town Italy — 2-pages of cartoons by Saul Steinberg The Danger by Mollie Panter-Downes Take Two Parts Sand, One Part Girl and Stir by S.J. Perelman “Parallax” — A poem by Maxwell Anderson Profiles: The Hot Bach — Part 3 of [...]
1944/07/01 — Cover by Rea Irvin Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town National Convention is two pages of cartoons, look to be by Perry Barlow, but the signature is hard to decipher Assistant Croupier by Joseph Wechsberg “Night Piece: In the Country” is a poem by Rolfe Humphries Grievance at Noon by [...]
