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...Phyllis McGinley, Pulitzer prizewinning...
...Author McGinley is also a fellow Catholic, devoted to heavily Catholic Larchmont. In / Know a Village, she has celebrated its charms: It looks haphazard to the shore...
...Everywoman's country?of such writers as Anita Loos (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), Cornelia Otis Skinner (Nuts in May), Sally Benson (Junior Miss) and Phyllis Mc-Ginley, a Larchmont neighbor and close friend, whose light verse parallels, to some extent, the everyday materials of Jean Kerr's prose.-But Phyllis McGinley is a deeper, more sentient writer to whom humor is seldom an end in itself...
...fact of the super-sleek 1960 New Yorker that those who love it best worry about it the most. Contributor Phyllis McGinley thinks of The New Yorker as the place where she was "first published, weaned, pruned and loved." Says she: "Whereas I once read it cover to cover, now I read it like a tired businessman. It's no longer a funny magazine; yet it isn't a literary magazine either. They still seem to think they're witty and sophisticated, but they're not. They're afraid of originality...
...syrupy "togetherness" campaign; the "togetherness" legend no longer appears on McCall's covers. On taking over, he coolly dumped $400,000 worth of stories and articles because they were too dull, began spending $150,000 a month on new editorial material by top writers and personalities (e.g., Phyllis McGinley, Moss Hart), v. $82,000 a month under Weise. Mayes also polished up McCall's color photography, has expanded McCall's autobiographical digests, and will publish excerpts from the lives of Art Linkletter, Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier. The latest acquisition: U.S. rights for a two-part abridgement...