Word: yorkerism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goggle-eyed New Yorker could guess from reading the biggest and blackest headlines, the "Mad Bomber" had struck. His calling card: a crude but workable bomb made of gunpowder, set to be detonated by a cheap watch movement wired to a flashlight battery-all contained in a short (2-5 in.) length of ordinary pipe capped at both ends. And, to provide the final touch, the pipe was stuffed into a man's red sock...
...good dance music (next attraction: Xavier Cugat); rock-'n'-roll is banned, and Owner Brecker hopes to move on to a whole new type of clientele. The old Roseland was advertised only in the tabloids, but the new establishment will run regular ads in The New Yorker, where, presumably, they will appeal not only to the "poor clerks" but to the college prom trotters, eggheads and exurbanites as well...
...they may be in some respects, the University Houses and the Annex dorms both face the same need for expansion. In 1930, when five of the present eight dorms were standing, the Radcliffe Yearbook reported: "There is room for every single girl, be she freshman or senior, New Yorker or Cambridgeite. There is no such thing as living in an 'outside house' and running over to a dorm for meals...
...another 31 in. chopped off the height (down to 57 in.) but no change from last year's 126-in. wheel base. Like DeSoto, Chrysler will add a third line, the Saratoga, which will fit in between its Windsor and high-priced New Yorker lines as competition for the big Buicks and Oldsmobiles...
Divorced. Charles Samuel Addams, 44, necrographic cartoonist for The New Yorker; by slinky, lank-haired Lawyer Barbara Barb, 36, live ringer for Addams' lady lurker; after two years of marriage, no children; after Lawyer Barb established "residence" in a 45-minute divorce-mill hearing in Athens...