Word: arno
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long discussions between priest and writer, the source of much of the story, began the day before, when Father Murray met Auchincloss and Researcher Paula von Haimberger Arno at Baltimore's Pennsylvania Station. Driving his 1960 Dodge through the city's hilly outskirts to his headquarters at Woodstock College, Father Murray pondered the rapid disappearance of the U.S. countryside and good-naturedly brushed aside Mrs. Arno's apology for "wrecking his schedule." Replied the Jesuit: "What of a little wreckage? There is nothing but wreckage around us today...
...excellent World War II coverage, and to devote an entire issue to John Hersey's report on Hiroshima. Shawn is now handicapped by the fact that most of the writers (Thurber, E. B. White, Wolcott Gibbs, Clifton Fadiman, Joel Sayre, Alva Johnston, et al.) and cartoonists (Peter Arno, Helen Hokinson, O. Soglow, Gardner Rea, et al.) who made The New Yorker famous have either died, wandered off to the exurbs, or become infrequent contributors. E. B. White's civilized despair and gentle celebration of nature is now rarely to be found in "The Talk of the Town," while...