1953-03-07 The New Yorker Magazine Contents 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 Kenny by John McCarten The Theatre – Miss Russell and Mr. Shaw by Wolcott Gibbs Television – “They Haven’t Killed Me Yet” by Philip Hamburger Letter from Paris by Genet On and Off the Avenue – Markets and Menus by S.H. The Record by David Daiches The Current Cinema – French Panel by John McCarten Letter from Washington by Richard H. Rovere The Race Track – Good Show by Audax Minor Musical Events – Worlds Apart by Douglas Watt Books – Toil and Strife by Anthony West