Word: yorker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...page headed "We Nominate for Oblivion-," an imitation of the feature created some months ago by Vanity Fair. Nominated for oblivion by Ballyhoo are Vanity Fair because its Oblivion department is "unsportsman-like"; Life, because "it cannot make up its mind whether to imitate Judge or the New Yorker...
eccentric, kinky-haired socialite, unsuccessful journalist, geographical author (Park Avenue, Palm Beach, Reno), called in the newspaper reporters. He told them that he had seen Cartoonist Peter Arno of The New Yorker kissing Mrs. Vanderbilt, that he had just caught Arno bringing Mrs. Vanderbilt home, had chased him with a revolver (Vanderbilt is an honorary Nevada State Policeman), tried to kill him. Later Mr. Vanderbilt's attorney modified the story, said that his client had gone after Mr. Arno but had thought better of it, returned home. There, he said, he discovered that his gun had been unloaded...
Upshot: Mr. Vanderbilt sued his wife for divorce; threatened to sue Mr. Arno for alienating her affections. Mr. Arno, who is in Reno to get a divorce from Lois Long ("Lipstick" of The New Yorker), meditated a suit against Mr. Vanderbilt for slander...
...vitality of photograph it easily equaled Town & Country. Text and drawing exhibited well the New Yorker technique but missed the master's polished cough and sigh. Only false note was a great photograph of, and leading article by, Randolph Churchill, jejune son of Winston, whose relation to Cleveland, if any, was nowhere explained. After that each page went well until the last which consisted of leering, Winchellesque questions without printed answers, e. g.: "Who is the minister who has the most complete collection of pornography in the city?" "Who is the financial power whose wife remarked when a maid...
...Author- Dorothy Rothschild Parker, 37, divorced wife of one Edwin Pond Parker II, is half Jewish, half Scottish. She has worked on Vogue, Vanity Fair, is now the New Yorker's "Constant Reader." During the Sacco-Vanzetti disturbances she was arrested in Boston for "loitering and sauntering," paid a $5 fine...