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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