New Yorker June 19 1943 S J Perelman John Strachey Charles Addams VFNM

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The New Yorker Magazine June 19, 1943, the complete issue in beautiful shape, as-new. Perry Barlow provides the wonderfully observed summer cover: on a tennis court, two teenage girls strain together to pull a heavy court roller while a boy ambles alongside pushing the wheeled chalk marker used to lay down the boundary lines. Barlow's joke lies in the cheerful reversal of expected roles — the girls have the backbreaking job of leveling the court while the boy gets the comparatively easy work of marking it. The contemporary indexing of the cover likewise identifies a roller, chalk, lines, powder, athletics, strength, and reversed sex roles. Here are a few of the reasons this issue is interesting: S. J. Perelman contributes the wonderfully titled “Well, Roll Me in a Turkish Towel!,” a mock biography of an old sweatshirt; British writer and RAF officer John Strachey describes a wartime convoy bound for North Africa; Sam Boal reports at length on the extraordinary Curragh internment camp in neutral Ireland, where Allied and German airmen live almost side by side; Geoffrey T. Hellman concludes an extensive Profile of United States Public Printer Augustus E. Giegengack and his association with Stars and Stripes; Joseph Wechsberg takes the wonderfully unpredictable Corsican Express; Mollie Panter-Downes reports from wartime London; Clifton Fadiman considers the military and political thinking of Max Werner and Harold Laski; and Charles Addams finds characteristically macabre possibi

• Publisher: New Yorker
• Year: 1943
• Condition: Fine

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