Word: hokinson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contributor to The New Yorker since its founding in 1925, esteemed both for his squiggly line drawings ("Nobody will catch on when I get senile," he once said) and for his sharp gag lines, which often formed the bases of cartoons by his colleagues Charles Addams and Helen Hokinson; of a heart attack; in Brookhaven...
Such hormone therapy is not new (TIME, Oct. 16, 1964); the current excitement has been stimulated by recent magazine articles and especially by a book, Feminine Forever, by Brooklyn Gynecologist Robert A. Wilson (M. Evans & Co., Inc., $5.95). According to the ads, Feminine Forever is the answer to the Hokinson woman's prayers -it tells "how to avoid menopause completely in your life, and stay a romantic, desirable, vibrant woman as long as you live. It shows how women who already have gone through the anguish of menopause can . . . grow visibly younger day by day." The author himself does...
...five records, $29.75) is the understatement of several years. The late monologuist was one of the most formidable artists in the history of the U.S. theater. Her monologues were not stunts but acute siftings of men and women as social beings. Her Doctors and Diet is worth 100 Helen Hokinson cartoons, her Three Generations in a Court of Domestic Relations pours oceans of immigrant experience into a mother's tears. The Italian Lesson, beginning with Dante's "Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood, where the right way was lost," exposes...
...audiences who sit at the lecturers' feet are still mostly women, but they are no longer the fluttery gushers the late Helen Hokinson lampooned 15 years ago. "Younger women with good educations are turning out," says John Mason Brown, "and the college audiences are infinitely more interested...
...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...