Word: yorkerism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minor read agents, a New Yorker, presented a note to the teller at the 43rd St. Merchants' Trust Bank saying, "This is a stick-up. Pass over all your cash and no one will get hurt." The teller was indeed stuck-up--insufferably so. She hardly glanced at the poor wretch, but replied, "Well, you must have that O.K.ed by an officer." Then she left her cage, walked to a guard and gave the rascal in charge. After searching him, finding neither weapons nor money, the guards threw him out of the bank. "We thought he was a bum," they...
Since the Digest is the official publication of the Democratic National Committee, it is of necessity propaganda. But well-written propaganda, presented with a slick ness of style occasionally reminiscent of the New Yorker, even imitating it, such as in short quips and jibes under "Talk of the Nation." There are parodies each month. In November's issue, the man in the Hathaway shirt peered through his one good eye and said, "It takes me twice as long to read the Digest, but it's worth the time." A column, "Inside," scoffed at Newsweek's periscope ("Fewer erasers are being...
Baker's decision that he was his own best teacher proved to be correct. With his wife Ernestine acting as his agent, commissions began to come in. It was a series of profile illustrations for The New Yorker magazine that caught the eye of FORTUNE's art editor and eventually brought TIME and Baker together...
Richard Armour, famed comic poet, whose light verse fills the Saturday Evening Post and the New Yorker weekly, has commented on the recent charges of Senator McCarthy in a letter to the CRIMSON. He Says...
...inside. By improving the carburetor and enlarging the intake and exhaust valves to permit freer "breathing" of its "FirePower" engine, Chrysler boosted horsepower from 180 to 235, making it the most powerful stock-car engine in the U.S. The new engines will go only into the highest-priced New Yorker and Imperial lines...