1944-07-08 The New Yorker Magazine Contents 1944/07/08 — Cover by Mary Petty Goings on About Town The Talk of the Town Italy — 2-pages of cartoons by Saul Steinberg The Danger by Mollie Panter-Downes Take Two Parts Sand, One Part Girl and Stir by S.J. Perelman “Parallax” — A poem by Maxwell Anderson Profiles: The Hot Bach — Part 3 of 3 by Richard O. Boyer about Duke Ellington The Theatre: Fair Enough by Wolcott Gibbs A Reporter at Large: Cross-Channel Trip — Part 2 of 3 — by A.J. Liebling The Current Cinema: And a Current Book by David Lardner The Proper Seating of the Poppet by Robert McLaughlin On and Off the Avenue: Markets and Menus by S.H. Books: Children’s Books for the Dog Days by K.S.W.