1939

‘He did not want me growing up in a country run by gangsters’

Why a father in Nazi Germany sent his son to Princeton

Q&A: Princeton’s 2024 Silver Cane Holder

How Princetonians Saved ‘The Great Gatsby’

Released 100 years ago, F. Scott Fitzgerald 1917’s defining work was all but forgotten until these alumni helped transform it into an American classic

Princeton Proust Questionnaire: Donald Fletcher ’39 *51, Princeton's Oldest Alum

Princetonians Team Up to Study China’s Demographics

‘The announcement produced headlines in media around the world about China’s demographic crisis. And I said, “That’s ridiculous. This is not a crisis,”’ recalls Lex Rieffel ’63

Discovering the Life of Gordon Merrick ’39, an Unlikely Gay Novelist

Joseph M. Ortiz *03’s biography is titled ‘Gordon Merrick and the Great Gay American Novel’

New Book Chronicles Urban Design Pioneer William Whyte ’39

Journalist Richard Rein ’69’s book chronicles Whyte’s impact

Journalist Richard Rein ’69 captures the creative mind of William Whyte ’39 in a new biography

The Notorious Fictitious Ephraim di Kahble ’39’s Candy Wrapper Exhibit

From the PAW Archives

They Called Him ‘Mr. Princeton’: Frederic Fox ’39

Princeton Portrait

Lives: Henry Morgenthau III ’39

In His Tenth Decade, a New Calling

A Tiger, Through and Through: Donald H. Fox k’39 on his Father, Frederic Fox ’39

PAW Tracks

Best Friend

Lem Billings ’39, confidant to the Kennedys, was always present — in the background

Poetry of Past and Present

At 100, a new poet emerges — Henry Morgenthau III ’39

Reading Room: Donald R. Fletcher ’39 *51

The Eternal Optimist

Freddy Fox goes to war

How a favorite son took his talent for theater to the battlefields of Europe

In Memoriam: Lyman Spitzer Jr. *38 and Robert Dicke ’39