New Yorker Magazine October 18 1952 fall autumn tree Perelman Charlotte's Web FN

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The New Yorker Magazine October 18, 1952, the complete issue in gorgeous shape. Edna Eicke's wonderfully autumnal cover shows a tiny child swinging beneath an enormous blazing orange-red tree, with fallen leaves scattered across the grass. Here are a few of the reasons this issue is interesting. E. B. White contributes a wonderfully deadpan election-year Comment comparing Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson by weight, pulse, tonsils, calorie consumption, sports, political supporters, and other increasingly absurd measures. Herbert Warren Wind writes an extensive Profile of author, drama critic, and celebrated lecturer John Mason Brown, including the memorable theatrical battle that followed Brown's merciless review of Tyrone Power Sr. S. J. Perelman revisits silent-screen vamp Theda Bara and A Fool There Was; Croswell Bowen reports on artist and convicted murderer John Resko and his return to the outside world after nineteen years in prison; Edmund Wilson ranges through an extraordinary collection of books and ideas including the Marquis de Sade, Albert Camus, Elizabeth Bowen, Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, and Bill Mauldin; and a two-thirds-page advertisement announces the newly published E. B. White classic Charlotte's Web, with Garth Williams's drawings of Fern, Charlotte, Wilbur, Templeton, and the other characters. There is fiction by Robert M. Coates, Montgomery Newman, and Fred Packard, poetry by Phyllis McGinley and R. P. Lister, and much more, as described below. The

• Publisher: New Yorker
• Year: 1952
• Condition: Fine

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