1953-04-25 The New Yorker Magazine Contents 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 Lewis Taylor The Theatre: Miss Bennett’s Slip Shows by Wolcott Gibbs The Race Track – Jig by the Dancer by Audax Minor A Friendship Sloop by Sloan Wilson Our Rural Correspondents – Things of the Past by Christopher Rand The Sky Line – Part 1: From Blight to Beauty by Lewis Mumford On and Off the Avenue – About the House by S.H. “In My Opinion” a poem by Irwin Edman The Current Cinema – Two Flat, One in Depth by John McCarten The Letters by E.G. Pollak Musical Events – Portrait of the Artist by Douglas Watt Books – Happy and Happy-Go-Lucky by Anthony West