Philip Hamburger

PROFILE of Vartan Gregorian, president and chief executive officer of the New York Public Library. He came to this post in 1981 from the University of …

REPORTER AT LARGE about visit to Kent State University a year after 4 students were shot & killed by National Guardsmen during a campus demonstration …

Parody on "Games People Play" - a study of adult behavior by Dr. Eric Berne. The theory is that in each man and woman there resides a Baby Chimp (BC) an …

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Mount Washington Cog Railway which transports passengers to the top of the mountain. On the way to the summit is a small …

REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit with William O'Dwyer, former Mayor of the City of N.Y. He's been living in Mexico City since the fall of 1950, when…

PROFILE of Mayor Robert F. Wagner tells about his childhood school, and college days. In 1928, while at Taft, Wagner swung into action on the campus …

REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Kansas City, Missouri, to attend Mr. Truman's autographing his "Memoirs: Year of Decision." The event took place at …

PROFILE of John P. Marquand, the novelist. Christina Sedgwick, the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Alexander C. Sedgwick and the niece of Ellery Sedgwick, the …

PROFILE of J. P. Marquand, the novelist tells about the two winters he spent on Treasure Island, originally called Salt Cay. The late John McCutcheon, the …

PROFILE of Oscar Hammerstein II. Tells something about the careers of his father William Hammerstein, and about his grandfather Oscar Hammerstein I. Willie…

PROFILE of Oscar Hammerstein II. Hammerstein and Logan wrote the book for "South Pacific" at Hammerstein's farm in Bucks County. Logan is nochturnal, …

Profile of Secretary of State, Dean Gooderham Acheson. When he graduated from the Harvard Law School, Felix Frank furter, who was then teaching at Harvard,…

PROFILE of Trygve Lie, the Secretary-General of the U. N. Lie was born in a suburb of Oslo, Jul. 16, 1896, the son of a carpenter, who deserted his family …

PROFILE of Trygve Lie, the Secretary-General of the U. N. Lie was born in a suburb of Oslo, Jul. 16, 1896, the son of a carpenter, who deserted his family …

REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Newburyport, Mass., where the celebrated Newburyport Plan originated. According to the desk clerk at the Garrison Inn, …

Profile of James. E. Casey, the president of the United Parcel Service, and history of the business, which Casey founded at the age of fifteen in Seattle, …

PROFILE of Norman Corwin (written in the style of a script for a radio drama). Chronology of his life & accomplishments. Born in Boston, May 3, 1910, …

REPORTER AT LARGE about dining with Mayor O'Dwyer. The Mayor recalled the days when he worked as a bartender at the Vanderbilt Hotel. Diamond Jim Brady…

Reporter at Large about accompanying an out-of-town ladies garment buyer on his round of the wholesale and manufacturing houses in town. There is little or…

Profile of Joseph Platzker, Assistant Commissioner of the Department of Housing and Building, who is also in charge of the City Vacancy Listing Bureau, an …

PROFILE of Gabriel Heatter, who covered Bruno Hauptmann's trial. On the afternoon of Friday, April 3, 1936, the day of the execution, Heatter went to …

PROFILE of Martin Block, disc-jockey of Station WNEW. During the Bruno Hauptmann trial WNEW had installed a commentator, A. L. Alexander, in the …

REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the Long Acres Fruit Farm, in the Hudson Valley, where volunteer apple-pickers aere at work. Among the pickers, perched …

REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the Halloran General Hospital in Staten Island. The wounded are taken there as soon as they arrive in this country and …

Talk story about Dr. Bettmann & his archive, a collection of some 15,000 photographs of old manuscripts, works of art, mechanical devices, historical …