{"product_id":"new-yorker-magazine-october-14-1961-the-prime-of-miss-jean-brodie-muriel-spark","title":"New Yorker magazine October 14 1961 Muriel Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie true 1st edition NM","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"x-item-description-child\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none has-data-writing-block:pointer-events-none [\u0026amp;:has([data-writing-block])\u0026gt;*]:pointer-events-auto R6Vx5W_threadScrollVars scroll-mb-[calc(var(--scroll-root-safe-area-inset-bottom,0px)+var(--thread-response-height))] scroll-mt-(--sticky-padding-top)\" dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pt-12 [--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-xs,calc(var(--spacing)*4))] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-sm,calc(var(--spacing)*6))] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-lg,calc(var(--spacing)*16))] px-(--thread-content-margin)\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"z-0 flex justify-end\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none has-data-writing-block:pointer-events-none [\u0026amp;:has([data-writing-block])\u0026gt;*]:pointer-events-auto R6Vx5W_threadScrollVars scroll-mb-[calc(var(--scroll-root-safe-area-inset-bottom,0px)+var(--thread-response-height))] scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]\" dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-8 [--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-xs,calc(var(--spacing)*4))] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-sm,calc(var(--spacing)*6))] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-lg,calc(var(--spacing)*16))] px-(--thread-content-margin)\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col gap-4 grow\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\" class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal outline-none keyboard-focused:focus-ring [.text-message+\u0026amp;]:mt-1\" tabindex=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert wrap-break-word w-full light markdown-new-styling\"\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e\u003cspan role=\"text\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe New Yorker Magazine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctober 14, 1961, the complete issue in magnificent shape, as-new.  This is treasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eGarrett Price\u003c\/strong\u003e cover is a lovely autumn fantasy: a small girl floats through a dense field of windblown fall leaves beneath three brightly colored balloons, with scattered leaves picked out in autumnal reds, yellows, and browns against the muted blue-green background. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere are a few of the reasons this issue is interesting: most importantly, this is a genuinely landmark issue. Beginning on page 52 is the \u003cstrong\u003efirst publication anywhere of Muriel Spark's \u003cem\u003eThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, presented complete in a single issue of \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e. Spark's celebrated story of the charismatic, manipulative, and unforgettable Edinburgh schoolteacher and her chosen \"Brodie set\" occupies the great central body of the magazine. Few issues in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker's\u003c\/em\u003e history have given such extraordinary space and prominence to a single literary work; the most famous comparison is the August 31, 1946 issue devoted to John Hersey's \u003cem\u003eHiroshima\u003c\/em\u003e. This is the original appearance of one of the defining works of twentieth-century British fiction, before readers could encounter it in book form. \u003cstrong\u003eRoger Angell\u003c\/strong\u003e transforms the Yankees-Cincinnati Reds World Series into Greek drama; \u003cstrong\u003eVed Mehta\u003c\/strong\u003e visits sitarist \u003cstrong\u003eRavi Shankar\u003c\/strong\u003e; \u003cstrong\u003eA. J. Liebling\u003c\/strong\u003e considers William Randolph Hearst and W. A. Swanberg's \u003cem\u003eCitizen Hearst\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cstrong\u003eMollie Panter-Downes\u003c\/strong\u003e reports from London on Britain, the Commonwealth, Europe, and the approaching royal visit to Ghana; and \u003cstrong\u003eRobert M. Coates\u003c\/strong\u003e surveys an exceptional group of artists including \u003cstrong\u003eJosef Albers, Agnes Martin, Zao Wou-ki, Vieira da Silva\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003eBernard Reder\u003c\/strong\u003e. The issue also contains a particularly strong collection of period advertising, including the four new 1962 Ford Thunderbirds, Herman Miller's remarkably prescient advertisement for \u003cstrong\u003eCharles and Ray Eames\u003c\/strong\u003e chairs, and a British Woollens fashion advertisement illustrated by \u003cstrong\u003eHoward Terpning\u003c\/strong\u003e, and much more, as described below. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e\u003cspan role=\"text\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Complete and Utter Contents of This Issue\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ewith grateful acknowledgment to Michael Palin and Terry Jones.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eComment\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDonald Malcolm\u003c\/strong\u003e visits the headquarters of an anonymous write-in candidate for Mayor of New York, an \"Indignant Citizen\" whose ingenious solution to the city's school-funding problem is to combine the Board of Education and Department of Sanitation. The resulting budget, he reasons, will provide excellent schools, and if the money runs out, accumulating garbage will provide New Yorkers with a pungent reminder of the importance of education. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Talk of the Town\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVed Mehta - \"Sitarist.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e A visit with \u003cstrong\u003eRavi Shankar\u003c\/strong\u003e, in New York for a Town Hall concert. Shankar discusses Indian music and recalls among his more unusual undertakings setting \u003cstrong\u003eJawaharlal Nehru's\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Discovery of India\u003c\/em\u003e to music. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Bainbridge - \"Pioneer.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e A fascinating Cold War-period visit with \u003cstrong\u003eMorton M. Rosenfeld\u003c\/strong\u003e, who specializes in \"the art of atomic fallout shelters.\" Bainbridge inspects the blast-resistant underground shelter Rosenfeld built beneath his Mount Vernon home in 1955 and discusses his plans to market private and public shelters costing from $1,000 to $20,000. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrendan Gill - \"Write, Write, Write.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e Gill attends a Boston party celebrating Harvard University Press's monumental \u003cem\u003eAdams Papers\u003c\/em\u003e, projected to exceed one hundred volumes and span the years 1639-1889, and talks with editor-in-chief \u003cstrong\u003eLyman H. Butterfield\u003c\/strong\u003e about \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Adams\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eR. Schoonover and St. Clair McKelway.\u003c\/strong\u003e An overheard Washington Square observation from one roller-skating girl to another: \"Sam can count up to a thousand, but he can't tie his shoelaces.\" \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eR. B. Heilman and John McCarten.\u003c\/strong\u003e \"Gastro-Intestinal Intelligence\" from Washington State, where the Rosario Inn advertises \"Prime Roast of Beef, Served in Its Own Au Jus.\" \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eE. F. Richner and Burton Bernstein - \"Manna.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e Second-hand American clothing shipped to Nigeria has been arriving with an unexpected bonus: dollar bills and loose change forgotten in the pockets. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFiction and Features\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoger Angell - \"Fall Classic.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e Subtitled \"A Garland of Mixed Autumn Strophes Plucked After a Recent Evening of Aeschylus at the City Center, Followed Too Quickly by an Afternoon of Mel Allen and the World Series,\" Angell transforms the \u003cstrong\u003eNew York Yankees-Cincinnati Reds World Series\u003c\/strong\u003e into a Greek play, combining baseball, classical tragedy, and the voice of \u003cstrong\u003eMel Allen\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMuriel Spark - \"The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e The \u003cstrong\u003efirst publication of Spark's masterpiece\u003c\/strong\u003e, presented complete here in an exceptionally long single-issue appearance. This is where readers first encountered Miss Jean Brodie, the Marcia Blaine School, and the celebrated Brodie set.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt Edinburgh's Marcia Blaine School for Girls, the unconventional \u003cstrong\u003eMiss Jean Brodie\u003c\/strong\u003e, perpetually and emphatically \"in her prime,\" selects a group of favored pupils who become known as the Brodie set. Her influence extends far beyond the authorized curriculum and deep into their developing lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe story follows the girls from roughly twelve to eighteen and looks forward into their adult lives. Miss Brodie loves the married art master, \u003cstrong\u003eMr. Lloyd\u003c\/strong\u003e, but instead becomes involved with music master \u003cstrong\u003eMr. Lowther\u003c\/strong\u003e. Her increasingly elaborate attempts to shape the lives and romantic destinies of her pupils eventually center upon Rose and Mr. Lloyd, but it is \u003cstrong\u003eSandy\u003c\/strong\u003e who becomes Lloyd's lover. Sandy later converts to Catholicism, becomes a nun, and ultimately betrays Miss Brodie to the school authorities - not over her sexual conduct, but over her sympathy for Fascism, which proves sufficient to end Brodie's teaching career. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is difficult to imagine a more evocative original setting in which to encounter Spark's work: not isolated from its moment in a later anthology or edition, but surrounded by the cartoons, criticism, automobiles, cosmetics, air travel, furniture, Cold War anxieties, and consumer culture seen by the very first readers of \u003cem\u003eThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePoetry\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMay Swenson - \"Wind WSW 12.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e A poem evoking a hurricane at sea, beginning, \"Slowly a floor rises, almost becomes a wall.\" \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGene Baro - \"Flowers.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e A poem beginning, \"Glass flowers, flowers of beads.\" \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Current Cinema\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrendan Gill - \"Small Towns.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e Gill reviews \u003cem\u003eTown Without Pity\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBlood and Roses\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSplendor in the Grass\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eMusical Events\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhitney Balliett\u003c\/strong\u003e ranges from the New York City Opera Company's Puccini \u003cem\u003eIl Trittico\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cem\u003eIl Tabarro\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSuor Angelica\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eGianni Schicchi\u003c\/em\u003e - to jazz and \"Jazz in the Garden\" at the Museum of Modern Art. Among the performers and musical figures appearing in the piece are \u003cstrong\u003eFrank Porretta, Vic Dickenson, Maria Di Gerlando, Christopher West, Arlene Saunders, Julius Rudel, John Alexander, Rouben Ter-Arutunian, Norman Treigle, Joe Thomas, Red Richards, Doris Yarick, Leonard Gaskin, Jackie Williams, William Chapman\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003eBuster Bailey\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eOn and Off the Avenue\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLois Long\u003c\/strong\u003e contributes the issue's shopping column. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Wayward Press\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA. J. Liebling - \"Look at the Record.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e Liebling takes up \u003cstrong\u003eW. A. Swanberg's\u003c\/strong\u003e biography \u003cem\u003eCitizen Hearst\u003c\/em\u003e and the remarkable newspaper empire of \u003cstrong\u003eWilliam Randolph Hearst\u003c\/strong\u003e. He considers Hearst's rise, the financial troubles that threatened the empire, its wartime recovery, and the peculiar economics of Hearst Consolidated, including the extraordinary case of the Detroit \u003cem\u003eTimes\u003c\/em\u003e, which could produce a profit on the corporate books after having been purchased by a competitor and shut down. \u003cstrong\u003eArthur Brisbane, Al Smith, Sophie Tucker, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, Phoebe Hearst\u003c\/strong\u003e, and others enter the discussion. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eLetter from London\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMollie Panter-Downes\u003c\/strong\u003e reports on Britain's increasingly complicated relationship with the European Common Market and the Commonwealth. She covers the Conference of Commonwealth Parliamentarians at the House of Lords, including the imposing \u003cstrong\u003eOdemo of Ishara\u003c\/strong\u003e, and discusses speeches by \u003cstrong\u003eDuncan Sandys, Harold Macmillan\u003c\/strong\u003e, and Senator \u003cstrong\u003eJ. William Fulbright\u003c\/strong\u003e. She also examines anxiety surrounding \u003cstrong\u003eQueen Elizabeth II's\u003c\/strong\u003e forthcoming Ghana visit amid deteriorating relations with \u003cstrong\u003eKwame Nkrumah\u003c\/strong\u003e, together with contemporary British politics and theatre. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Art World\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert M. Coates\u003c\/strong\u003e surveys an unusually attractive cross-section of the 1961 New York art world, encompassing \u003cstrong\u003eJosef Albers, Vieira da Silva, Bernard Reder, Zao Wou-ki\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003eAgnes Martin\u003c\/strong\u003e, with Knoedler, Kootz, Sidney Janis, Betty Parsons, and the Whitney Museum among the galleries and institutions represented. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Race Track\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eG. F. T. Ryall\u003c\/strong\u003e reports from the newly altered \u003cstrong\u003eAqueduct Race Track\u003c\/strong\u003e, where the saddling arrangements, walking ring, main track, winner's circle, and landscaping have all undergone changes since the July meeting. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBooks\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBooks discussed or noted include \u003cstrong\u003ePeter Matthiessen's\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Cloud Forest\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cstrong\u003eMary McCarthy's\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eOn the Contrary\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cstrong\u003eErnest Becker's\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eZen, A Rational Critique\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cstrong\u003eH. E. Bates's\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Enchantress\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cstrong\u003eSacheverell Sitwell's\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eGolden Wall and Mirador\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cstrong\u003eChester G. Starr's\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Origins of Greek Civilization\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cstrong\u003eRichard Collier's\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Sands of Dunkirk\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Selby's\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eMadame\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cstrong\u003eWinfield Townley Scott's\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eExiles and Fabrications\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cstrong\u003eEdmund Stillman and William Pfaff's\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe New Politics: America and the End of the Postwar World\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFascinating Vintage Advertisements\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA spectacular vintage print ad for the \u003cstrong\u003e1962 Ford Thunderbird\u003c\/strong\u003e, a two-page color spread introducing \"four new Thunderbirds\" for 1962: the limited-edition Sports Roadster, Landau coupe, four-passenger Hardtop, and Convertible. The dramatic central image shows the bright red Sports Roadster beside a banked test track, with the other three models pictured below.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHerman Miller \/ Charles and Ray Eames\u003c\/strong\u003e - An exceptional full-page advertisement devoted to Eames chairs asks, \"IN 2061 ONE OF THESE CHAIRS WILL STILL BE FAMOUS. WHICH?\" The copy identifies the molded plywood chair as Charles Eames's \"immortal chair\" and confidently predicts that one day it will be priceless, surrounded by a marvelous assortment of molded plywood, fiberglass, plastic, wire, and other Eames seating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBritish Woollens\u003c\/strong\u003e, illustrated by \u003cstrong\u003eHoward Terpning\u003c\/strong\u003e - A handsome full-page fashion advertisement depicting an elegantly dressed couple examining artwork and promoting British wool fabrics as possessing \"Many are the elements of absolute perfection.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTWA\u003c\/strong\u003e - A wonderfully elegant Royal Ambassador service advertisement for Europe, with a chef drawn by \u003cstrong\u003eLudwig Bemelmans\u003c\/strong\u003e, promising first-class service rivaling \"the world's finest hotels.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHelena Rubinstein\u003c\/strong\u003e - A striking color advertisement for the new Herbessence Collection, with a glamorous model posed beside a large white unicorn against a medieval tapestry depicting the legendary animal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth Arden\u003c\/strong\u003e - A brilliantly colored \"Ah look. The Gala Look\" cosmetics advertisement, with Arden cosmetics arranged as an extravagant still life against an intense blue background.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChevrolet\u003c\/strong\u003e - A full-page color advertisement for the new Jet-Smooth \u003cstrong\u003e1962 Chevrolet\u003c\/strong\u003e, showing an Impala four-door Sport Sedan against a highly stylized blue and purple cityscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCinzano\u003c\/strong\u003e - A bold modern color advertisement for Cinzano vermouth, dominated by oversized bottles of Italian and French vermouth against a nearly black background.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCourvoisier Cognac\u003c\/strong\u003e - Napoleon receives the Queen of Prussia at Tilsit in a reproduction of a historical painting, paired with Courvoisier's \"The Brandy of Napoleon\" campaign.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCanadian Club\u003c\/strong\u003e - A dramatic two-page color advertisement showing Copenhagen's illuminated Tivoli Gardens from above, with a Canadian Club bottle superimposed over the nocturnal scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCartoons\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Kraus\u003c\/strong\u003e - \"Somehow I never figured him the type to go down with his ship.\" Pirates in a lifeboat watch their captain disappearing with his sinking vessel. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDana Fradon\u003c\/strong\u003e - Women tourists watch an Indigenous woman weaving a rug while signs at the loom identify \"Warp\" and \"Woof\" with appropriate arrows. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBarney Tobey\u003c\/strong\u003e - \"Oh, here's Mr. Griffin now, just back from lunch.\" A receptionist announces Mr. Griffin to a waiting businessman as Griffin staggers drunkenly through the doorway. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert J. Day\u003c\/strong\u003e - \"Watch it, Harry! You've hit the subway again!\" A construction worker warns a steam-shovel operator who has accidentally excavated part of a subway car, complete with commuters. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlan Dunn\u003c\/strong\u003e - \"Have you ever thought of being thrown open to charity?\" A young woman makes the suggestion while taking tea with an elderly woman in her mansion. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames Stevenson\u003c\/strong\u003e - A motorist approaching a \"Deer Crossing\" sign discovers three deer driving a convertible across the highway. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWarren Miller\u003c\/strong\u003e - \"There it is again! That damned, goofed-up corporate image of ours.\" A husband wakes his wife to show her the laughing, whirling corporate apparition haunting him above their bed. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames Mulligan\u003c\/strong\u003e - \"Explain that our generator is out of order.\" A group having trouble with a television set asks a drummer to transmit the message. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClaude Smith\u003c\/strong\u003e - Burglars enter the Chase Manhattan Bank and emerge for their getaway carrying modern paintings rather than sacks of money. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDana Fradon\u003c\/strong\u003e - \"Come to bed, dear. After all, it doesn't have to be another Sermon on the Mount.\" A minister's wife tries to persuade her husband to abandon the sermon over which he is laboring late at night. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhitney Darrow, Jr.\u003c\/strong\u003e - \"He's not don't walking!\" A woman reprimanded by a policeman for walking against a DON'T WALK signal points indignantly toward a man crossing the street. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoseph Mirachi\u003c\/strong\u003e - \"Et tu, Marjorie?\" Coach Baker discovers that his own wife is leading the students hanging him in effigy. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert J. Day\u003c\/strong\u003e - \"On your mark, get set, bargain!\" A National Labor Relations Board mediator, stopwatch in hand, starts a grim-faced labor-management bargaining session as though it were an athletic event. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStan Hunt\u003c\/strong\u003e - \"He's on the launching pad. I'll see if I can catch him before he blasts off.\" A woman on the telephone describes her enormous businessman husband as he prepares to leave for work, translating the Space Age into domestic life. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnatol Kovarsky\u003c\/strong\u003e - A man carries an unplugged television set toward a repair shop while, impossibly, a Western movie continues playing on its screen. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEd Fisher\u003c\/strong\u003e - A fireman slides down the firehouse pole past a prominently placed vertical sign reading \"THINK.\" \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Kraus\u003c\/strong\u003e - Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, where Eve has found a new way to tempt Adam: she has baked the forbidden fruit into an apple pie and is wafting its aroma toward him. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaken as a whole, this is one of those issues in which \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e becomes more than a magazine containing an important literary work. \u003cstrong\u003eThis is the place where Muriel Spark's \u003cem\u003eThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie\u003c\/em\u003e first entered the world\u003c\/strong\u003e, encountered by its original readers amid the cultural landscape of October 1961 - Cold War fallout shelters, Ravi Shankar, the World Series, Hearst's newspaper empire, Britain's argument over Europe and the Commonwealth, contemporary New York art and music, Eames furniture, Detroit's new 1962 automobiles, transatlantic air travel, luxury cosmetics, cognac, and vermouth. For a Spark collector, this is not simply an issue containing the work; it is its \u003cstrong\u003eoriginal publication\u003c\/strong\u003e, surrounded by the moment into which it was born.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"\u003eThe pages are crisp and clean, without a hint of foxing or other staining, no writing, no odors, no creases, nothing missing, tight to the staples. Strictly graded Near Mint; it was put away when brand new (along with many others we have) by an obsessive New Yorker collector from whom we acquired it, untouched since new until now. We have many other beautiful New Yorkers online now so please take a look, and please send your want list. All our New Yorkers ship in archival sleeves with backing boards. 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