1944-08-15 The New Yorker Magazine Contents 1944/08/05 — Cover by Barbara Shermund Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town Full-page cartoon by Peter Arno The Cherboors by James Thurber The Looters by Emily Hahn “There’ll Always Be a Xanthippe” a poem by Stanley Walker Profiles: The Regular by George Woodward features Staff Sergeant Joseph P. Prendiville “Invitation” is a poem by David Morton The Current Cinema: Wilde and Others at War by John Lardner A Reporter at Large: The Yellow Flour by Daniel Lang Colloquy by Shirley Jackson On and Off the Avenue: About the House by B.B. “Ceiling Unlimited” is a poem by Leslie Nelson Jennings The Race Track: At Concert Pitch by Audax Minor Books: A Guide to “Finnegans Wake” by Edmund Wilson reveiws “A Skeleton Key to ‘Finnegans Wake'” by Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton