Word: yorker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assassinated the tyrant Hipparchus (514 B.C.) and were in turn put to death?ED. **TIME, LETTERS, FORTUNE, Reader's Digest, House & Garden, Better Homes & Gardens, McCall's, Pathfinder, Literary Digest, New Yorker, Popular Science. ?Apparently of the "white collar" class?$5,000 a year...
...York City in 1894, short, dark Raymond Holden graduated from Princeton in 1915, served on the Mexican border with the National Guard and in the Army during the War. Afterwards he worked in a publishing office, on the staff of Travel Magazine, was an executive editor of The New Yorker, a member of the staff of FORTUNE, now does free-lance writing. A respected poet in his own right, he married Poetess Louise Bogan in 1925, is the author of a biography of Lincoln and of two detective stories which were published under a carefully-guarded pseudonym...
...decades have such curious little advertisements been printed in the Public Notices columns of the New York Times, Herald Tribune and Brooklyn Eagle. Year in, year out, through War, Boom and Depression they have appeared at least once a week, sometimes every day. Last week many a New Yorker found out for the first time what they were about...
Meanwhile, Author Francis Rufus Bellamy, a onetime executive editor of The New Yorker, had conceived a variation of the Golden Book formula, produced it last May in Fiction Parade-a slight magazine reprinting current fiction. Last week it had only 30,000 subscribers, but it had one less rival. Proudly Editor Bellamy announced that, beginning October, his magazine will reprint old classics along with new, will carry no advertising, will be particularly attentive to poetry and art, will be named Fiction Parade & Golden Book...
...wished, Manager Cochrane could have supported his second contention with his first baseman, Henry Benjamin Greenberg, who is probably the outstanding player on the Tigers this year, certainly the leading homerun hitter in both leagues and the ablest Jew in baseball. A New Yorker who learned to bat with a broomstick in side-street one-o'-cat games, he was offered a job with the Yankees in 1930, shrewdly refused it because he foresaw small chance of replacing First Baseman Lou Gehrig. He quit New York University at the end of his first semester to join the Tigers...