1944-07-01 The New Yorker Magazine Contents 1944/07/01 — Cover by Rea Irvin Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town National Convention is two pages of cartoons, look to be by Perry Barlow, but the signature is hard to decipher Assistant Croupier by Joseph Wechsberg “Night Piece: In the Country” is a poem by Rolfe Humphries Grievance at Noon by Louise Field Cooper Profiles: The Hot Bach – Part 2 of 3 is about Duke Ellington and by Richard O. Boyer with small Ellington cartoon by W. Cotton “For a Man’s Eighteenth Birthday” is a poem by Marshall Smelser The Theatre: Hudson Duster by Wolcott Gibbs “Address Book” is a poem by Marya Mannes A Reporter at Large: Cross-Channel Trip — Part 1 of a series by A.J. Liebling The Current Cinema: Renovations by David Lardner covers “Christmas Holiday” On and Off the Avenue: About the House by B.B. Musical Events: Two Twenty-Sevens by Robert A. Simon Letter from Lisbon by Marya Mannes The Race Track: By Jimminy Again by Audax Minor Caramels by PFC Len Zinberg Books: Salvador Dali as Novelist by Edmund Wilson