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This week, we’re bringing you a selection of pieces about legendary early encounters with Alfred Hitchcock, Simone de Beauvoir, J.F.K., Alexander McQueen, and others. #NewYorkerArchive
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In 1937, A. J. Liebling chronicled Orson Welles’s precocious beginnings as a Midwestern teen-ager who moved to Ireland and proceeded to bluff his way into theatrical circles in Dublin. #NewYorkerArchive nyer.cm/XAnSjXJ

Revisit a Profile of Alfred Hitchcock from 1938—years before he directed some of his best-known films. #NewYorkerArchive
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A couple of weeks after “A Raisin in the Sun” opened, in 1959, the playwright Lorraine Hansberry reflected on how it had changed her life. #NewYorkerArchive nyer.cm/ewaRjBj

In 1996, Ingrid Sischy reviewed a provocative, gifted new fashion designer: Alexander McQueen. #NewYorkerArchive nyer.cm/CMeeHni

The French novelist Simone de Beauvoir visited New York City in 1947, and shared her intention to write “a very serious book about women.” #NewYorkerArchive
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In 1944, Jon Hersey wrote about the surprising heroism of a young naval lieutenant named John F. Kennedy, who rescued his crew after a frightening confrontation in the South Pacific. #NewYorkerArchive
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John Brooks wrote about a visit with Samuel Beckett, in 1964, while the playwright was in New York to oversee the production of his first screenplay. #NewYorkerArchive
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Revisit a profile of the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov seven months after his defection from the Soviet Union, at the beginning of his career at the American Ballet Theatre. #NewYorkerArchive
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