E. J. Kahn

PROFILE of Richard Evans Schultes, a Harvard botanist specializing in ethnobotany and jugle plants. Tells about his life as well as the various …

A REPORTER AT LARGE about a fatal climbing accident on Mt. Moran in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park... On July 14, 1986, 2 young women tumbled …

PROFILE about Dwayne Orville Andreas, the chief executive officer of the commodities multinational Archer Daniels Midland Company, who is also known, not …

PROFILE of Judge Joseph A. Wapner, 66, the judge on the half-hour television show "The People's Court". He can currently be seen by 20 million or so of…

PROFILE of soybeans. Long beginning about world hunger. Contemporary farmers can produce enough food to provide above the minimum amount of calories …

PROFILE of rice. In most governmental planning, agriculture is given the short end of the stick. It's only when a disaster hits that people think of …

PROFILE of the potato. There is no staple-food plant that has not affected the outcome of the strife on one battlefield or another. If the South had had …

REPORTER AT LARGE about Morocco. King Hassan II is a sovereign of unmitigated omnipotence who has seven palaces. This nation of 21 million is the …

Wheat is the corn of history

REPORTER AT LARGE about Survival International, a 12-year-old London-based organization whose chairman is Robin Hanbury-Tenison. It is concerned with the …

REPORTER AT LARGE about the U.S. Marines' "reinforcement training exercise" at Guantanamo Bay, a U.S. naval base in Cuba. Writer flew to Guantanamo Bay…

PROFILE of Richard Lewis Clutterbuck, a 60-year-old lecturer at the Univ. of Exeter in Devon, England, where he gives a seminar on political violence. It …

PROFILE of Georgia. Tells of the state's early history & some of the important men. Gold was discovered in 1828. Bountiful veins were in Indian …

PROFILE of Georgia, President Jimmy Carter's home state. Tells about Georgia's colonial history: it was settled in 1733 when 114 colonists, led by …

PROFILE of industrialist Cyrus S. Eaton, who will be 94 two days after Christmas. He was born in the coastal village of Pugwash, Nova Scotia, of English …

REPORTER AT LARGE about the British press in 1776, especially the news about America. Gives opinions on the government's policies, eyewitness reports …

PROFILE of Arthur Loeb Mayer, the 87-yr. old movie businessman, now a motion-picture pedagogue. He was one of the first to make people aware that motion …

REPORTER AT LARGE about the 1970 census. Discusses (all in detailed statistics) the effect of immigrants on the population, which in 1870 constituted 15% …

REPORTER AT LARGE about the 1970 census--its statistics and significance. There were 203 million Americans alive in 1970--almost twice as many as in 1920. …

Tells about the tragedy of the 20th Olympiad when Arab terrorists scaled the fence around the Olympic Village & held members of the Israeli team hostage, …

PROFILE of Maurice Frederick Strong, an Under-Secretary-General of the UNited Nations & secretary-general of the 1st U.N. Conference on the Human …

REPORTER AT LARGE about Franconia College, a lively, coeducational, experimental, not yet fully accredited New Hampshire institution that began operation …

PROFILE of John Service, retired diplomat & China expert, who, between 1945 & the 1950s, was unremittingly harassed by Sen. Jos. McCarthy & his …

PROFILE of John Usher Monro, former dean of Harvard College & now director of freshman studies at Miles College, a small, unaccredited, hand-to-mouth black…

PROFILE of Amnesty International, a London-based organization that aids political prisoners throughout the world. There are at least a quarter of a million…

REPORTER AT LARGE about South Africa, particularly the life of the non-whites. There are 12 1/2 million, outnumbering the whites almost 4 to 1. Taken as a …

REPORTER AT LARGE about South West Africa, once a German colony, given to Britain after the 1st World War, and then turned over to the Union of S. Africa. …

REPORTER AT LARGE about South Africa. Every Jan. Parliament meets for a six-month session in Cape Town. There are two branches of Parliament: the House of …

REPORTER AT LARGE about Micronesia, a U.N. Trust Territory consisting of widely scattered Pacific islands administered by the U. S. The Ponape …

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, or Micronesia. When the U. N. was se up at the end of the war, its charter stipulated …

PROFILE of David Rockefeller, president of Chase Manhatta Bank, tells about the Rockefeller family holdings at Seal Harbor; the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller …

PROFILE of David Rockefeller, president of Chase Manhattan Bank, speaks of the power directors of Chase Manhattan supposedly wield. The Rickefellers …

PROFILE of Ambassador Angier Biddle Duke, age 48, Chief of Protocol of the United States. He was appointed to this post by Pres. Kennedy Jan. 25, 1961. It …

REPORTER AT LARGE about two groups of Japanese service-men who hid out on the Philippines, not knowing World War II was over. One group, which hid on …

REPORTER AT LARGE about two Japanese soldiers who hid out on the Pacific island of Guam for 16 years, until May, 1960, not knowing World War II was over. …

REPORTER AT LARGE about Japanese soldiers, sailors & civilian employees of the armed forces who were outside Japan on V-J Day, and about the stragglers who…

E. J. Kahn’s 1960 Profile of Theodor Seuss Geisel—a.k.a. Dr. Seuss.

PROFILE OF COCA-COLA. In 1913, the company began to hanker after a standard, distinctive bottle of its own, & 3 years later it gave its blessing to the …

PROFILE of Coca-Cola. Dr. Wiley, an archfoe of Coca-Cola had at one time been head of the Dept. of Agriculture's Bureau of Chemistry. He categorized …

PROFILE OF COCA-COLA, history. The man who invented Coke was John Styth Pemberton. In 1886 he unveiled a syrup he called Coca-Cola. In 1891 he sold the …

REPORTER AT LARGE about a trip to Russia, arranged by Intourist. Komsomolksaya, or Young Communist, subway station is reputedly the most beautiful of all …

REPORTER AT LARGE about a trip to Russia and about a visit to the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad. There was a bunch of paintings that the guide said got to …

PROFILE of Abe Burrows, writer, composer, director, and performer. When Gardner was the producer and star of C.B.S. radio show called "This Is New York," …

PROFILE of Abe Burrows, liberettist and director of musical comedy. Burrows who was once a tutor of Latin, is a rapt devotee of etymology. He is in fact, …

PROFILE OF Guy Lombardo, who was born on June 19, 1902, in London, Ontario. He began his musical career as a boy together with his brothers, Carmen, Lebert…

PROFILE of Guy Lombardo, born in London, Ontario. He began his musical career as a boy together with his brothers, Carmen, Lebert & Victor, who are still …

PROFILE of John Colquhoun Tysen, president of Previews, Inc., a real-estate firm, tells about the beginning of the unique enterprise. Henderson Talbot, an …

PROFILE of Sidney James Weinberg, senior partner in the investment-banking firm of Goldman, Sachs & Co., & a director "of a number of large corporations. …

PROFILE of John Reed Kilpatrick, former president & now chairman of the board of Madison Square Garden. He was succeeded as president by James D. Norris, …

PROFILE of Cy Feuer & Ernest H. Martin, the theatrical producers who "pushed their way into the theatre with elbows & teeth," & produced five successive …

PROFILE of Ernest H. Martin & Cy Feuer, the producers of five successive musical hits. The producers' most memorable tussle was one they engaged in a …

PROFILE of Harrigan & Hart sketches the great success the partners scored in N.Y. betw. the years 1871-1884; then their new thatre, the Comique, burned …

PROFILE of Harrigan and Hart, the famous theatrical team, tells about Harrigan's parents, his childhood, and about his earliest career in the theatre. …

Second part of PROFILE of Harrigan & Hart, the celebrated theatrical team of the mid-19th century. Deals with Harrigan, his plays, characters and …

PROFILE of Edward Harrigan and Tony Hart the famous variety-show and musical comedy team. The two men, over a period of 20 years collaborated on more than …

PROFILE of the American Kennel Club. Out in Kalamazoo, ther has existed since 1898 the United Kennel Club, which registers some 15,000 dogs annually & with…

PROFILE of the American Kennel Club, the governing body of organized dogdom, the ranking organization for the registration & certification of pedigrees. …

PROFILE of Thomas Lamb, inventor of a distinctive type of handle called the Lamb Handle. It has a surface of curved grooves, carved with microscopic …

PROFILE of Roger L. Stevens, real-estate operator, tells about his idea of a business center in Boston. During his frequent trips to Boston in the interest…

PROFILE of Roger L. Stevens, a real-estate operator, who formed and headed a syndicate that bought the Empire State Bldg. Stevens, Robert W. Dowling, the …

PROFILE of Joshua Logan, playwright, theatrical director and play doctor. Logan was a graduate of Culver Military Academy, and was determined to go to a …

PROFILE of Joshua Logan, theatrical director. The Logans' place at Long Ridge, which the bought 2 years ago, came equi ped with a greenhouse. Advised …

PROFILE of J. K. Lasser, tax expert and author of several books on the subject. For many years, Vermont had a terribly complicated state-income-tax form, …

REPORTER AT LARGE about the intersection of the Tacon in State Parkway & Underhill Road, Yorktown Heights, which has been considered one of Westchesters …

PROFILE of Gridley Adams, an retired advertising man who, for the better part of the last 30 years has carried on an impassioned public love affair with …

Profile of W. Averell Harriman tells about Mr. Harriman's talk with Sherwood in 1942, when the Germans were on the point of taking Stalingrad. Harriman…

PROFILE of William Zeckendorf, president and sole stockholder in the real estate firm of Webb & Knapp, tells about the property Zeckendorf acquired and …

PROFILE of John Hay (Jock) Whitney. He worked as a buzzer boy at Lee, Higginson & Co., at a salary of sixty-five a month. Mr. Whitney stayed a year, ending…

PROFILE of John Hay (Jock) Whitney. Joan Whitney, John Hay's sisted married in 1924, Charles Shipman Payson. Mrs Payson shared equally with her brother…

PROFILE of General Clay who ever since his celebrated occup tion of Germany has been a chaos-into-order man of global standing, and has for the past 5 …

PROVILE of Walter S. Mack, Jr., a chairman of the board of the Pepsi-Cola Co. Coca-Cola & Pepsi account for 90% of the cola drink business in the U. S. …

Profile of Jacob K. Javits, Representative of the 21st Congressional District. He has served 3 years in Congress and b been asked during that time to …

Profile of Congressman Jacob K. Javits, of the 21st Congressional District, a predominantly Jewish district, with some Catholics and Negroes sprinkled …

Profile of Walter Francis White, a fair-skinned Negro, who is secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, an organization …

Profile of Walter Francis White, a fair-skinned Negro, who is secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, an organization …

Part 2 of E. J. Kahn’s 1948 Profile of President Roosevelt’s widow discusses her international travels and her work as chairman of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.

Part 1 of E. J. Kahn’s 1948 Profile of F.D.R.’s widow discusses her impeccable diplomacy as the first woman to represent the U.S. as a delegate to the United Nations.

PROFILE of Leon Milton Birkhead, head of Friends of Democracy, Inc. Tyler Kent, a U.S. foreign service man, during the war, convicted of selling military …

Profile of Leon Milton Birkhead, national director of propaganda for Friends of Democracy. One of Friends of Democracy most fruitful accomplishments has …

Profile of James William Johnson, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Third District of N.Y., which includes most of Manhattan Island. Mr. Johnson, a …

Profile of Arthur Simon Meyer, chairman of the N.Y. State Board of Mediation. Meyer spent three months on the Little Steel case, as chairman of the …

Third part of PROFILE of Frank Sinatra deals with his humble beginning and his rise to fame. Born in Hoboke the only son of an Italian immigrant, Frank …

Second Part of PROFILE of Frank Sinatra tells about his appeal to bobby sockers; their shenanigans; fan mail clubs, etc. The fans have always considered it…

REPORTER AT LARGE about S/Sgt. Edward F. Allison, a redeployed soldier, of Alameda, California. He fought the Japs on Attu, was assigned to the …

PROFILE of Lieutenant General McNair. McNair refused to join the flow to the Pentagon, perhaps the greatest mass movement since the opening of Radio City. …

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Overseas Discharge and Reassignment Unit, an Army camp in this country where some officers and men just back from Italy were …

PROFILE of Major General Edwin Forrest Harding, commanding a body of U. S. troops now serving overseas.

PROFILE of Major General Edwin Forrest Harding, commanding a body of U. S. troops now serving overseas.

REPORTER AT LARGE about the first American troops to arrive in Australia, and an American reporter's impression of the country, its people and their …

REPORTER AT LARGE gives an account of a nonstop voyage from California to Australia aboard a troopship.

PROFILE of Joseph Dunninger, magician & determined foe of spiritualistic mediums. One time Dunninger distracted the N. Y. General Assembly of Spiritualists…

PROFILE of John Kirtland Wright, director of the American Geographical Society. Tells about its Millionth Map, with the scale of 1:,000,000, or 15.78 miles…

Reporter at Large about the naval training ship moored at 135th St. and the Hudson River. Until recently the battleship was known as the U.S.S. Illinois; a…

Rabbit hunting with the Buckram, Beagles, an organization which has kennels at Brookville, L.I. It costs about forty five hundred a year to maintain the …

PROFILE of Dr. Clyde Fisher, Curator-in-Cheif of the Hayde Planetarium. The opening of the Planetarium was for him a gratifying climax to almost 10 years …

PROFILE of Nornay Saddler, a smooth-haired fox terrier, who has just won his 55th best-in-show award. Saddler's owner is James M. Austin. Mr. Austin …

REPORTER AT LARGE about the CBS short wave station. For nearly eight months four listeners have been working in shifts of 15 hours a day taking down …

Profile of Randolph forrest Burke, who is, according to such authorities as Patricia Coffin, society columnist of the World Telegram, and Cholly …

PROFILE of Mildred Dilling, the harpist. Harpo came into into her life in 1928, when the Marx Brothers were appearing locally in "Animal Crackers." She was…

Reporter at Large about Arlene Warner, the typical Elgin girl, of the Elgin National Watch Company, Elgin, Ill., who was given a free trip to New York …

PROFILE of the four generations of Mills, of William Mills & Son, the oldest and largest firm in the world selling fishing tackle. The house of Mills is …

REPORTER AT LARGE about Open House, Inc., and a sightseeing trip arranged by them. Open House, Inc., is a nonprofit institution "dedicated to help students…