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1968-02-24 The New Yorker Magazine Contents

1968/02/24 —

  • The classic Rea Irvin annual cover
  • Goings on About Town
  • The Talk of the Town
  • “Indulgence in Games” by Dick Arndt, MD
  • “The Satellite” by Ted Walker
  • “Who Called That Pied-Billed Grebe a Podilymbus Podiceps Poediceps” a poem by Odgen Nash
  • Reflections: A New Situation in the World by Richard H. Rovere
  • “Piano Practice” a poem by Howard Moss
  • The Theatre: Laff Riot by Brendan Gill is about “Plaza Suite” by Neil Simon
  • Letter from London by Mollie Panter-Downes
  • “Unalterables” by Arthur Gregor
  • “The Collection” by Thomas Meehan.
  • Irish Sketches” Ring in the Old, Ring in the New — With a Bit of a Jangle by JOhn McCarten
  • The Current Cinema: A Great Folly, and a Small One begins with the recent death of Mae Marsh and spends most of the time talking about the early work of D.W. Griffith, by Pauline Kael
  • Musical Events: Grant Opera by Winthrop Sargeant
  • The Race Track: Rustlings of Spring by Audax Minor
  • Books:A Very Inquisitive Old Party by W.H. Auden