WELL, First Flight won the Futurity at Belmont last weekend as easily as I expected she would. From the roof of the stand, where I was watching the race, she appeared to be well up in the early ...
TO the casual observer, what has been going on for the past fortnight or so has looked very much like the start of one of those comfortable, old-fashioned, peacetime football seasons. Gone is the ...
To join a local tennis club (that at St. Briac is especially good) costs you about $4 a month, and the privileges of splendid golf links amount to a like sum. Casinos, of course, are the same the ...
Hurstpier point’s private chapel at Valmouth to be properly married by Cardinal Pirelli (a character borrowed outright by a sinking Mr. Wilson from another Firbank novel, “Concerning the ...
Published in the print edition of the October 2, 1926, issue. As part of an effort to make The New Yorker’s archive more accessible to readers, this story was digitized by an automated process and may ...
After it was all over, Ducky Pond broke training for the first time this fall when he got back into the Yale dressing room. The first thing he said was, “I never was so glad to get a tie game.” Then ...
The latest reanimation of Mary Shelley’s classic tale, starring Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi, is a labyrinthine tour of a ...
Heidi Blake An investigative journalist and contributing writer to The New Yorker.
WATCHING the Giants, a sizable lot, let the opposition overrun Fran Tarkenton, their only reliable quarterback, one can scarcely be astonished that he is throwing with a sore arm; one can, though, be ...
A—If he is a stranger to me, I call him Mac. All strange bartenders are known as Mac, just as Pullman-porters are called George and strangers from whom one wants to borrow a match or bum a dime for a ...
I didn’t know they listed those things along with changes of equipment.” Farewell to Jamaica: The crowd disagreeing with the placing of Gold Foam and Demonstration. . . . Esposa’s finish in the Remsen ...
Winston Guest, 9; Aidan Roark, 8 plus; Billy Post, 8 minus; Michael Phipps, 7 (until he plays at No. 2) ; Ebby Gerry, Cecil Smith, and Gerald Balding, 7. THEY pinned blue ribbons on the Western ponies ...