Word: yorkerism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sixth TV season by filling his half-hour show (Sun. 7 p.m. E.S.T., NBC) to the brim with Paul Winchell, master of ceremonies, man of many voices, dramatic actor, singer, dancer and soap salesman (Cheer and Camay). By such breathless activity, Winchell, a muscular, 29-year-old New Yorker, hopes to escape an occupational hazard of ventriloquism: becoming incidental to his "doll" in the public mind...
...From the summer circuit come George Batson's mystery drama, Celia, with Jessie Royce Landis; The Frogs of Spring, a Manhattan comedy based on Nathaniel Benchley's New Yorker stories; and Eva Gabor in Sailor's Delight...
...great city "which lies beneath its flies, swollen and unhealthy." Your country is supposed to be God's own country, free from flies, sacred cows and D.P.S from Pakistan, yet I love Calcutta with its dank tenements and narrow alleys. I am proud of Calcutta, as a New Yorker is proud of New York City. As yours is God's own country, you are supposed to be free from any mental disequilibrium. To keep the mind of His favorite children on an even keel . . . you are provided with the largest number of psychiatrists. Unfortunately, we have only...
...competent and colorless New York lawyer, active in civic affairs, who has been chief counsel of the Citizens' Budget Commission for the last 21 years. Riegelman, a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, did not immediately accept the nomination, but he declared earlier, "There is nothing a New Yorker should not drop to serve in the city's highest office." Determinedly hopeful G.O.P. campaign leaders wondered whether he could drop his excess dignity on television...
...having driven the cab, flown the plane, worked for a paper) Stockly headed for New York determined to work either for The New Yorker magazine or TIME. He came to TIME first, was given a writing trial and hired. For the next seven years he wrote TIME'S Science section...