New Yorker Magazine February 11 1956 Charles Addams John Updike Benny Goodman

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The New Yorker Magazine February 11, 1956, the complete issue in good shape. The cover is by Charles E. Martin, who gives us a crowded antiques auction, with clocks, mirrors, chandeliers, paintings, sculpture and furniture piled together in the foreground while an auctioneer presides over the bidders in the room beyond. Here are a few of the reasons this issue is interesting. John Updike contributes the fiction piece "Toward Evening" as well as two Talk of the Town pieces, including the marvelous "Rockefeller Center, Ho!," in which he finds a route from the Empire State Building to Rockefeller Center while avoiding both Fifth and Sixth Avenues. John Brooks writes at length about the Ford Foundation's sale of 10,200,000 shares of Ford Motor Company stock, Faubion Bowers sends a Letter from Jakarta, and Janet Flanner reports from Paris. Benny Goodman appears in a Talk story as his newly assembled band prepares to return to the Waldorf's Empire Room and The Benny Goodman Story prepares to open; John McCarten reviews The Court Jester and the Japanese film Golden Demon; and Anthony West considers books including Edwin O'Connor's The Last Hurrah and Edward J. Ruppelt's The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects. There is also a classic Charles Addams monastery cartoon, and much more, as described below. Inside This Issue Comment — E. J. Kahn, Jr. considers the government's predicament following Tokyo Rose's release from prison: immigration authorities want to deport the American-bor

• Publisher: New Yorker
• Year: 1956
• Condition: Good

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