1953-02-07 The New Yorker Magazine Contents 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 Angelica Gibbs The Current Cinema – Two Misses, Not Very Near by John McCarten Tables for Two – The Enormous Room by D.W. Letter from Paris by Genet The Art Galleries – Impressionist, Expressionist, Abstractionist by Robert M. Coates On and Off the Avenue – Feminine Fashions by Lois Long Television – Ebb Tide by Philip Hamburger The French Navy Et Moi by Nathaniel Benchley “Essay on a Photo Album” a poem by Walker Gibson Musical Events – Kitten on the Keys by Douglas Watts The Race Track — Well, Well by Audax Minor Books – Three Pasts by Brendan Gill