1944-08-26 The New Yorker Magazine Contents 1944/08/26 — Cover by Will Cotton Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town Full-page cartoon by Whitney Darrow, Jr. Poor Everybody by Robert McLaughlin “Aria” a poem by Rolfe Humphries A Guide to Literary Pilgrimage by James Thurber Profiles: Public Relations — Part 2 of 4 — by Alva Johnston about Russell Birdwell “Wind From Home” is a poem by Robert P. Tristram Coffin Large (two-thirds of a page) Addams Family cartoon by Charles Addams “August Night” is a poem by Hortense Flexner The Current Cinema: Evasion Via Bagdad by John Lardner A Reporter at Large: The Talk ina Cinnamon Grove by Ernest O. Hauser Civilian Sunday by Helen Eustis Letter from France by A.J. Liebling The Race Track: Movie Hero by Audax Minor No Namee by Edith Morgan King Books: “You Can’t Do This to Me!” Shrilled Celia: Inquiry into a Current Best-Seller is by Edmund Wilson and is about “The Robe” by Lloyd C. Douglas