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...return next spring, the guiding minds of The New Yorker will be Editor Harold Ross, St. Clair McKelway, Wolcott Gibbs and Mrs. White (Katharine Sergeant Angell), who remains in Manhattan as managing editor. But "Notes and Comment" will be written by a newcomer to the metropolitan scene, Romeyn ("Rym") Berry, longtime (1919-36) graduate manager of athletics at Cornell University. Rym Berry is about as much like Andy White as a polar bear is like an amoeba. Shy, smallish Mr. White first met big Mr. Berry, who is the equal of Editor Ross in sudden irascibility, at Cornell where both...
...Daily Sun editorialized in the next day's issue: "Rym Berry . . . deserves, and should get without further ado, a resounding cheer from the undergraduates, a pat on the back from the faculty, and at least a Gideon bible from the graduate students. . . . What would the campus be without the spectacle of Mr. Berry making a weekly pilgrimage to his laundress? . . . What would the Sun's advertising columns be without Mr. Berry's frequent full-page contributions? . . . Mr. Berry belongs to Cornell. Mr. Berry's hat is just as much a part of its owner as his glasses with the heavy...
...Rym Berry is as vast and impressive as a Wagnerian tenor, especially when, of a winter day, he puts on his dirty-whitish, reputedly polar-bear coat. Floppy, capacious tweed knickerbockers are his usual gear and sometimes (in his official capacity at a track meet) he achieves a novel effect by adding to the ensemble a tailcoat & white tie, twirling in his hand a big gold-knobbed baton. Appearances of this sort, however (say Cornellians) reveal only one-third of his personality. In his office he is irascible, sometimes making helpless undergraduates wonder why they have put up with...