1953-05-02 The New Yorker Magazine Contents 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 – This Is It, Honey by St. Clair McKelway The Theatre – Mr. Williams as Mr. Dickens by Wolcott Gibbs Letter from Paris by Genet A Reporter at Large – A Room at the Barn by John McNulty The Current Cinema – Up the Cattlemen! by John McCarten Letter from London by Mollie Panter-Downes The Race Track – Gray Whirlwind by Audax Minor On and Off the Avenue – About the House by B.B. Television – Album by Philip Hamburger Couture Continentale by Francis Steegmuller “Bob-White” a poem by John Hall Wheelock Letter from Washington by Richard H. Rovere Musical Events – Man with a Past by Douglas Watt Books – Through the Collarbone of a Hare by W.H. Auden