Word: yorkerism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kind of Babbitt, but without old George F.'s fundamental decency and guilelessness. The U.S. has become quite fond of the Babbitt who read Edgar Guest, but a pseudo-sophisticated Babbitt who reads The New Yorker is almost unforgivable...
...Medic, which has brought Dragnet's style to the men in white, gets attention from both the wags and the woebegone. Typical gags: 1) when Medic is made into a movie, it will be called A Scar Is Born or I Dismember Mama; 2) a New Yorker reported TV reception so good that he caught an intestinal virus from watching Medic...
...Beam Distilling Co. to become president of Park & Tilford Distillers Corp. He succeeds Arthur D. Schulte, who continues as chief executive officer in his new job as board chairman, vacant since the death (in 1949) of his father, Cigar-Store-Chain Founder David A. Schulte. A native New Yorker, Brown started selling shoes at 18, studied journalism in New York University night school, tried reporting for New York's Daily Mirror, went back to selling shoes, later became general merchandise manager for Chicago's Goldblatt Brothers department store. In 1936 he began selling whisky for Seagram & Sons...
When Capp took the witness stand to answer the charge, the lawyers confronted him with their evidence. They asked Capp about a New Yorker profile by E. J. Kahn Jr. in which Capp was quoted as admitting that when "I was just a kid from the country ... I became an expert on pornography." The profile also said that Capp's cartoons have "bits of Rabelaisian humor, often . . . adroitly covered up." Unruffled, Capp answered that both he and New Yorker Writer Kahn were professional "humorists" who used "exaggerated humor." The "method of The New Yorker," he added, "is different from...
Their first issue, which Pegasus will distribute in London and Paris besides the U.S., contains a collection of poems by Donald A. Hall, Jr. '51, a junior fellow who has contributed to the New Yorker and Atlantic Monthly. Subsequent titles have not yet been definitely decided...