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