Word: yorkerism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Death Confirmed. George Sessions Perry, 46, towering (6 ft. 5 in.), Texas-born National Book Award-winning novelist (for Hold Autumn in Your Hand, in 1941), who covered the North African campaign in World War II for The New Yorker, wrote 145 stories and articles for the Saturday Evening Post (including many of the "Cities of America" series and a description of his fight against crippling rheumatoid arthritis); when his unclad body was found in a tidal stream near his home, two months after he disappeared (police theorized that he drowned himself; he had told friends that he heard voices...
Died. Miguel Covarrubias, 53, energetic, popular Mexican caricaturist of the '20s and '30s (for Vanity Fair, The New Yorker), painter, anthropologist and art historian (Island of Bali, The Eagle, the Jaguar and the Serpent); of septicemia; in Mexico City...
...overcomes the commonplace virtue of his stuffy brother Richard. Within a few hours he parlays both into a $20,000 offer with more to come as he needs it. Having made his point, Charlie unconvincingly spurns the money. On this framework, Author (The Trouble of One House) and New Yorker Critic Brendan Gill hangs a morality tale. It boils down to the adage that appearances are deceiving. Charlie, with all his faults, has the courage to look coolly and calmly at Life. Richard, despite all his probity, is frightened of Truth. When Charlie suggests that their revered father drove...
Died. Howard Brubaker, 74, puckish paragrapher (1925-50) for The New Yorker; of cancer; in Westport, Conn...
...Ross, a New Yorker who is in charge of Defense's legislative and public affairs, stoutly maintains that there is no conflict of interest involved. Over the years, he explained, the clothing company, until recently headed by his brother-in-law, had been awarded a great many contracts for military clothing. Ross himself, until 1952, had been vice president of the firm, but divested himself of all company connections when he went to work in the Pentagon. Last winter, right after Mrs. Ross became president of the company, she was awarded the contract for the 249,000 pairs...