Word: yorkerism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marriage Revealed. Charles Addams, 43, bats-and-werewolves cartoonist of The New Yorker; and Barbara Barb, 35, New York lawyer; both for the second time; on Dec. 1, 1954; in Florence...
...York's Finger Lakes district, he knocked off a succession of York State historical novels. Now, at 84, Sam Adams displays his tireless versatility anew in an amusing collection of sketches written out of his boyhood recollections. Grandfather Stories, most of which first appeared in The New Yorker, is the Book-of-the-Month Club's midsummer selection...
Joseph C. Kracht, 50, was named vice president and retail manager of Montgomery Ward (starting Aug. 1), the company's first retail veep in three years. A native New Yorker and Columbia University graduate, Kracht spent 13 years with Ward, then quit in 1950 to become a vice president at W. R. Grace & Co. and then to the same spot with Fedway Stores, a subsidiary of Federated Department Stores...
...newfound maturity. Next of kin in mood, manner and appeal to J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, The Young Lovers uses a breezy class-of-'55 lingo to shine up the ancient story of boy-mates-girl. Author Halevy, a 35-year-old New Yorker, scores his first-novel romance with a bustling big-city sound track. Subway doors snap shut like guillotines, shreds of dirty newspapers swirl along the avenues instead of autumn leaves, a joyless Village party gets high on marijuana and low on clothes; and all the time the two lovers sleepwalk...
...takes a two-hour nap at 3, works until breakfast at 8:30, then finishes for the day at noon. Between articles Taylor has written seven books, on everything from Winston Churchill to W. C. Fields, also writes occasional fiction and is a regular contributor to The New Yorker.* Many another successful free-lancer carves out a specialized area for himself, e.g., J.D. Ratcliff, science and medicine, Howard Whitman, popular sociology. But even the "specialists" go far afield if they come across an article idea that interests them-and the editor of a magazine they write...