Word: orleanian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orleanian...
...list of cities where, since the success of The New Yorker, local weekly smartchart, have been started, last fortnight was added New Orleans.† Like most of its contemporaries, The New Orleanian candidly follows The New Yorker pattern. Its first issue showed care of preparation, uncommon taste in typographical layout. Most famed contributor: Roark Whitney Wickliffe Bradford, author of Ol' Man Adam & His Chillun (source of Marc Connelley's Pulitzer prize play, The Green Pastures). Instead of "The Talk of the Town" (New Yorker), the New Orleanian's first pages were headed "Uptown-Downtown-Back of Town...