Word: yorker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the Glamor Guys should be prolific Floyd Davis, Jon Whitcomb, Walter Klett, Gilbert Bundy, The New Yorker's Galbraith, and the Glamor Gal Ritchie (Barbara) Cooper...
...Please don't misunderstand me. The humor is of two distinctly different types of and though they may both be very funny, never the twain shall meet. It may be true that a glimpse at "The New Yorker' would leave an Englishman cold, but 'Punch' is to no great laughgetter over here, while in England it has'em in stitches...
Head of the group is Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, who has been publisher of TIME since 1937, was managing editor of FORTUNE (1930-35), an editor of The New Yorker (1925-30). In the new enterprise, no TIME Inc. venture (neither TIME Inc. nor any of its officers has an interest, financial or managerial, in the project), Ralph Ingersoll's associates include ex-Associated Press Executive Edward Stanley, Mystery Story Writer S. Dashiell Hammett, Banker Harry C. Cushing of E. H. Rollins & Sons, Inc., Manhattan Lawyer John F. Wharton. Its corporate name: Publications Research...
...Yorker readers, "Small Fry" is a cherished pictorial department which week after week hits off the doings of tough, disdainful little tots. The artist, William Steig, is in sympathy with his characters in that he hated to grow up, still does. A quiet young man with lazy, stone-blue eyes, a wide grin and upstanding stiff brown hair, Steig at 31 looks about as he did when he went to Public School No. 53, in The Bronx. Little boys, he believes, "are not as quickly socially-conditioned as little girls and obviously not as artificial as adults. They furnish...
Williams, who was Ibis of the Lampoon when he was here, draws regularly for the New Yorker and was formerly with Life...