Word: yorkerism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...documents and diagrams of a B-36's atomic bombs, their fusing and explosive powers. The letter also established a rendezvous; if the Russians were interested, they were to get in touch with French within the next two days at Room 1877 of Manhattan's Hotel New Yorker...
...native New Yorker, "Whitey" Willauer began his career as an admiralty lawyer, then moved into Government service as an investigator. In World War II he directed U.S. aid to the Far East, after V-J day stayed on to organize CAT airline with General Claire Chennault. Squeezed out of control of the line by financial troubles in 1950, he remained as president and vice-chairman of the board until three years ago, when he became Ambassador to Honduras. A powerfully built six-footer who once played fullback for Princeton, Willauer found few facilities for recreation in Tegucigalpa, took up skindiving...
Winner of the 1954 Atlantic Monthly Award for the best short story by a new author, Gill has since written stories for the New Yorker and the New York Times Book Review. He will devote some of his time to work on a novel...
...well-executed paintings-a wide-hipped nude, Harlem street scenes, an oil portrait that markedly resembled Khrushchev-stocked up on mystery novels and books on Degas and Van Gogh, sipped his brandy neat at the nearby Music Box bar. He read the local papers and, occasionally, The New Yorker. Sometimes he helped the building janitor make wiring repairs. Said one bemused neighbor later: "He didn't look as if he had a nickel. You'd never take...
...looked up the New Yorker and found the story. It concerned an improbable couple named Elgin and Caroline, telling how they fell in love and later indulged themselves libidinously in Adams House. The story was subtly and liberally sprinkled with naked bodies, passionate embraces and the like. Vag could not bring himself to finish it, so he looked at the ending and put the magazine down...