New Yorker May 5 1945 Shirley Jackson Eddie Condon Rea Irvin Saipan VFNM

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The New Yorker Magazine May 5, 1945, the complete issue in beautiful shape. Rea Irvin provides the wonderfully expressive wartime cover, set aboard a Navy ship pitching heavily at sea. A group of sailors in blue uniforms appear to have resigned themselves to the rolling motion, while the officer in the foreground looks distinctly less comfortable with life on the ocean—a wonderfully understated Irvin treatment of seasickness and wartime naval life. Here are a few of the reasons this issue is interesting: E. B. White writes from San Francisco on the eve of the historic conference that would create the United Nations; Janet Flanner reports on the horrors of the Ravensbrück concentration camp for women as the Nazi camp system was being exposed to the world; John Lardner writes from Saipan about Black soldiers of the Twenty-Fourth Infantry hunting Japanese holdouts after the island had officially been declared secure; Rogers E. M. Whitaker concludes his extensive Profile of jazz guitarist Eddie Condon; Shirley Jackson contributes the story “Whistler's Grandmother”; and Lillian Ross writes at length about Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov, and there is much more, as described below. In This Issue Comment E. B. White considers the San Francisco Conference and the paradox inherent in attempting to construct a new international organization from nations still fiercely concerned with sovereignty and nationalism. Prompted by Chinese diplomat T. V. Soong's willingness to surren

• Publisher: New Yorker
• Year: 1945
• Condition: Fine

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