TWO WEEK'S WATER AWAY--I
REPORTER IN CHINA about the transportation by American ships of Manchurian occupation troops. The Twenty-second Division of the New Sixth Army were given a…
View ArticleTWO WEEK'S WATER AWAY--II
REPORTER IN CHINA about the transportation by American ships of Manchurian occupation troops. The Twenty-second Division of the New Sixth Army were given a…
View ArticleTHE COMMUNIZATION OF CROW VILLAGE
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Crow Villate. It was taken over by the Communists a few days after the Japanese surrendered. The organization was made …
View ArticleHiroshima
John Hersey's 1946 piece exploring how six survivors experienced the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, and its aftermath.
View ArticleA Short Wait
Luba comes to America to the house of her Uncle David after years of suffering at the hands of the Germans in concentration camps and ghettos in several …
View ArticleThe Old Man I - A Day At Saratoga
PROFILE of Bernard Baruch, who said that the former Ambassador likes to tell him that this country has "gone to hell in a bucket."
View ArticleThe Old Man II - Money
PROFILE of Bernard Baruch. Speaks of his unwillingness to give financial advice. This reticense is partly the result of an unfortunate experience he had in…
View ArticleThe Old Man III - National Kibitzer
Profile of Bernard Baruch. While Miss Higgins acted as nurse for Mr. Baruch, he had to undergo an operation for an ulcer. When Miss Higgins reported the …
View ArticleConference Room 474
A WAYWARD PRESS about the Presidential press conference which caused frightful headlines all over the world About the possible use of the atomic bomb in …
View ArticleMR. PRESIDENT -- QUITE A HEAD OF STEAM
PROFILE of President Truman. Dr. Graham, the Presiden physician, comes from Kansas City, & Mr. Truman has known his father all his life, but had never met …
View ArticleMR. PRESIDENT: TEN O'CLOCK MEETING
PROFILE OF President Truman tells about a morning staff meeting. Mr. Truman asked General Vaughan if he had anything to bring up. Vaughan seldom speaks at …
View ArticleMR. PRESIDENT: FORTY-EIGHT HOURS.
PROFILE of President Truman: Report on a typical working day in the President's life. Mr. Connelly, the President's Appointments Secretary, is the …
View ArticleMr. President: Ghosts in the White House.
PROFILE of President Truman. Mr. Truman told about a chees some N.Y. State admirers sent to Pres. Andrew Jackson upon his retirement. They pressed a cheese…
View ArticleMR. PRESIDENT: A WEIGHING OF WORDS
PROFILE of President Truman. tells about a session he held with Dean Acheson & a number of his advisers & document drafters for a final going over of a …
View ArticleExplanation
A lady received a letter from the Personal Trust Division of the Irving Trust Company, where she had a large cusdod account. They informed her that they …
View ArticleTHE INGATHERING OF THE EXILES.
REPORTER AT LARGE about the State of Israel. The 50,000 Jew living in the Yemen at the end of World War II, constituted one of the most ancient Jewish …
View ArticleThe Kibbutz
OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about the agricultural village unit in Israel known as the kibbutz. The kibbutz movement was founded early in the century by …
View ArticleOVER THE MAD RIVER.
REPORTER AT LARGE about how the August flood following hurricane Diane, hit Winsted, Conn. It came about due to the overflow of the Mad River, which goes …
View ArticleJOURNEY TOWARD A SENSE OF BEING TREATED WELL.
REPORTER AT LARGE about the flight of Vilmos Fekete, his wife, and two young daughters from Budapest to Austria, after the anti-Communist uprising last …
View ArticleA GAME ON A HILL
FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS piece about William S. Girard, the American soldier, who lured a Japanese woman brass-picker, Mrs. Naka Sakai, a 46-year-old …
View ArticleSUCCESSORS
REPORTER AT LARGE about interviews with middle-class Israeli families, where parents, many of them ghetto fighters in World War II, had survived the …
View ArticleHOMECOMING I-THE HOUSE ON NEW CHINA ROAD
REPORTER AT LARGE about a recent visit to China. Writer was born in a house at 20 Recreation Road, in Tientsin, in North China, in 1914. That house was his…
View ArticleHOMECOMING II-A POSTING TO TIENTSIN
REPORTER AT LARGE about writer's recent visit to Tientsin, China, where he spent the first eleven years of his life. His father was a missionary who …
View ArticleHOMECOMING III-THE LONG LIFE OF THE FOUR OLDS
REPORTER AT LARGE about writer's recent visit to Tientsin, China, where he spent the first 11 years of his life. He was interested in the current state…
View ArticleHOMECOMING IV-A TYRANNY OF NUMBERS
REPORTER AT LARGE about a recent visit to Tientsin, China, where writer spent the first eleven years of his life. He remembers all the signs of Chinese …
View ArticleHIROSHIMA: THE AFTERMATH
REPORTER AT LARGE about the six people whose experiences in Hiroshima the writer described in an article written a year after the bomb was dropped. Tells …
View ArticleASYMMETRY
A REPORTER AT LARGE about the writer's visit to the 7th world congress of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, held in Moscow...…
View ArticleAGEE
A CRITIC AT LARGE about James Agee's life (born 1909) as a journalist, novelist, and screenwriter until his death in 1955. At the age of six, his …
View Article1988 08 01 054 TNY CARDS 000350665
DEPT. OF AMPLIFICATION on Hersey's "recent essay on James Agee, which appeared under the heading A Critic at Large in the July 18th (1988) issue, I did…
View Article“Survival” (A Reporter at Large), June 17, 1944 (excerpt)
TAKES excerpt from John Hersey's REPORTER AT LARGE about John F. Kennedy and PT 109 in the Second World War...
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