Word: yorker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even longtime readers of The New Yorker know little of the man responsible for its famed first department, entitled "The Talk of the Town." When last week's issue appeared bearing a cover-picture of a small seahorse eating oats from a nosebag, few readers found anything remarkable in the artist's initials, E. B. W. E. B. W. stands for small, diffident 32-year-old Elwyn Brooks ("Andy...
Writer White is the second prominent staffman of The New Yorker to show drawing ability after success in writing. Three years ago he collaborated with his staffmate James Thurber in writing a book called Is Sex Necessary? Writer White noticed that Writer Thurber had 1 habit of nervously scribbling little figures and throwing them in the wastepaper basket. Writer White fished them out, found them amusing enough to save. Publishers Harper & Bros, also found Writer Thurber's hastily scrawled figures amusing, used them to illustrate Is Sex Necessary? Since then the sketchy, slightly neurotic illustrations of Writer Thurber have...
Unlike Writer Thurber, Writer White admits to no natural aptitude for drawing. He believes his watercolor seahorse will be his last attempt at art. Shy, he does not woo publicity, rarely lets his name appear in the magazine. Before joining the editorial staff of The New Yorker, Writer White was a poet without much sense of location. He had wandered from New York, where he was born in Mount Vernon, to the Aleutian Islands. After graduating from Cornell in 1921 he worked a year in New York City, then wandered West, worked a year on the Seattle Times...
...entertaining to wonder whether the four hundred followers of the Reverend Frank Buchman found copies of the current New Yorker in the living room when they gathered on Saturday for a ten-day house party at Briarcliff Manor. The portrait of Mr. Buchman and the exposition of the strange garments in which he clothes religion, as presented in the New Yorker's columns, might have made members of "The First Century Christian Fellowship" feel rather like a little girl at the terrible moment when her birthday doll turns out to be only nasty sawdust inside...
...James A. Farley, the Roosevelt campaign manager, was in Davenport, Iowa, last week to harvest a crop of 26 convention votes for his candidate. After pledging its delegation to use "all honorable means" to help nominate the New Yorker, the meeting howled down a proposal that Oklahoma's Governor Murray, who ran Governor Roosevelt a nip & tuck race in the Des Moines Register and Tribune poll, be named as second choice. Iowa Democracy also favored re-submission of the 18th Amendment to the States...