New Yorker Magazine March 16 1946 Jean-Paul Sartre John Hersey Cheever

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The New Yorker Magazine March 16, 1946, the complete issue in beautiful shape, as-new. Constantin Alajalov takes us backstage at a Hollywood studio for this wonderfully strange cover. A blonde actress sits at her makeup table while a makeup artist works beside her; behind them, the wall is crowded with an extraordinary collection of masks and made-up faces—beauties, grotesques, monsters, and assorted character types—while the machinery of the movie studio waits beyond. Alajalov turns Hollywood transformation into the joke: the glamorous face in the chair is surrounded by all the other faces the studio might manufacture for the screen. This is an outstanding early-postwar issue, unusually rich in both literary and historical interest. A. J. Liebling visits Jean-Paul Sartre during the French philosopher’s stay in New York; John Hersey interviews General George C. Marshall in Chungking; Janet Flanner reports from the Nuremberg trials; and Joseph Wechsberg begins an account of returning to his native Czechoslovakia. There is fiction by John Cheever, Robert Lewis Taylor, Katharine Brush, and Zelle Stewart, an extensive Profile of jazz record impresario Milton Gabler, and E. B. White presiding over an exceptionally crowded Books department. The result is a marvelous snapshot of 1946: the war is over, but its consequences are everywhere, while New York is already busy getting back to philosophers, jazz records, toy trains, theatre, movies, racing, and the ordinary absurdities of met

• Publisher: New Yorker
• Year: 1946
• Condition: Fine

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