Word: hokinson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wanted. In the first year and a half alone, about 100 staffers were fired, many with a muttered apology from Ross: "We need geniuses here." Gradually Ross found what he needed: James Thurber, E. B. White, Ogden Nash, John O'Hara, S. J. Perelman, Peter Arno, Helen Hokinson, 0. Soglow...
...authors are able to hit it from every angle. They go back into her former life twice, once to a stone cave and later to a Roman bordello. The dialogue is witty, and the characters are almost perfect: a confused critic as the lover, a comic secretary, a Helen Hokinson-like committee woman, a stuffy judge, and a refugee from The Cocktail Party. They are all played to the hilt...
President Taylor divided the educated woman into three categories: 1) the "co-ed type: gay, happy, extroverted, and judging success by the number of men who seek her company; 2) the Helen Hokinson type: intelligent, educated woman commenting on a world she does not fully understand--she would cure society with a lending library and Norman Cousins; 3) the ideal type: doing whatever she has to do with grace, whatever she wants to do with enjoyment; she is interested in her education and her life...
...deceptive sense that things have changed not at all: with a sentimentality that he would loudly scorn, Editor Harold Ross had rounded up contributions from such time-honored New Yorker favorites as E. B. White, James Thurber, Ogden Nash, John McNulty, Peter Arno, Gluyas Williams and the late Helen Hokinson. Readers with a long memory could even pick up the fourth part of a "profile"* of the late Playwright Wilson Mizner where Alva Johnston left off eight years...
Philadelphia's staid old Girard Trust Co. livened up its 112th annual report last year with Helen Hokinson cartoons gently kidding the customers (TIME, Jan. 31). With this sprightly innovation, Girard Trust won the 1949 "Oscar of Industry" award for the best financial report of any U.S. financial institution, and gained readers as far away as South Africa. This week, in its 113th annual report, Girard Trust turned the tables on itself. It ran cartoons by The New Yorker's Perry Barlow kidding its own officers, particularly vice presidents, topped things off with a guffaw at the hidebound...