New Yorker Magazine September 28 1963 black cats Rafael Osuna Vatican II FINE

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The New Yorker Magazine September 28, 1963, the complete issue in beautiful shape. André François provides the wonderfully dark and atmospheric cover, a nighttime apartment-house scene populated by numerous black cats, many of them nearly disappearing into the darkness so that the viewer gradually discovers them throughout the picture. Here are a few of the reasons this issue is interesting: Robert Shaplen contributes a substantial Reporter at Large on young Peace Corps volunteers living and working amid poverty in the Philippines; Herbert Warren Wind writes about Rafael Osuna's victory at the United States tennis championships at Forest Hills; Xavier Rynne reports from Vatican City on the approaching second session of the Second Vatican Council and the consequential debate over the relationship between the bishops and the Pope; fiction is by Mavis Gallant, Robert Henderson, and Peter De Vries; and the issue contains an exceptionally attractive group of early-1960s advertisements, including spectacular two-page ads for the 1964 Ford Thunderbird and Chevrolet's 1964 Corvair, Corvette, and Chevy II, and there is much more, as described below. The Complete and Utter Contents of This Issue with grateful acknowledgment to Michael Palin and Terry Jones. Cover André François - A dark, subtly humorous nighttime scene filled with black cats that almost vanish into their urban surroundings. Comment Donald Malcolm writes about the perennial complaints surrounding American college food,

• Publisher: New Yorker
• Year: 1963
• Condition: Fine

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