1944-08-12 The New Yorker Magazine Contents 1944/08/12 — Cover by Will Cotton Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town “The Writing Public” cartoon with caption is by Gluyas Williams We’re Proud of You, Boy by Lawrence Williams What a Man Would Do by Robert M. Coates Full-page cartoon by Whitney Darrow, Jr. Profiles: The Young Man Behind Plexiglass is by Brendan Gill and about Joseph Theodore Hallock “The Good Swimmer” is a poem by Rolfe Humphries The Theatre: Miss West by Wolcott Gibbs is about Mae West in “Catherine Was Great” Letter from France by A.J. Liebling Christening in the Cruise by Mary Mian “Dusty Answer” is a poem by David McCord The Race Track: A Little Flower and Some Other Colts is by Audax Minor The Current Cinema: The World Made Safe for Wilson by John Lardner is about “Wilson” Our Combatant Correspondents: Mukluks and Glogg is by Staff Sergeant N.T. Joost, Jr. Books – Briefly Noted