New Yorker magazine November 25 1950 Toots Shor Bemelmans Liebling Faulkner VF

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The New Yorker Magazine November 25, 1950, the complete issue in beautiful shape. Ludwig Bemelmans takes us behind the scenes of a busy restaurant, where the kitchen staff is working at full speed while a row of waiters waits at the service counter. At the center of the commotion, a chef methodically carves an enormous roast turkey, while another tends a steaming pot, dishes and platters pile up in the foreground, orders hang overhead, and prepared plates make their way toward the dining room. Bemelmans turns the organized chaos of a professional kitchen into a wonderfully lively Thanksgiving-season scene. This outstanding issue is highlighted by John Bainbridge's extensive Profile of legendary New York restaurateur Toots Shor, whose celebrated establishment attracted athletes, sportswriters, entertainers, press agents, and other members of what Bainbridge calls the “Shorian society.” A. J. Liebling dissects the New York election and the press coverage surrounding it; William Faulkner appears in Comment through an open letter to the voters of Oxford, Mississippi, on beer and prohibition; and Katharine S. White and Geoffrey T. Hellman visit distinguished Jane Austen scholar R. W. Chapman. There is fiction by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Preston Schoyer, and James Reid Parker, while W. H. Auden surveys an exceptionally broad shelf of books and the arts departments cover Bell, Book and Candle, Last Holiday, the Whitney Museum's contemporary American painting exh

• Publisher: New Yorker
• Year: 1950
• Condition: Fine

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