Word: yorkerism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Half a dozen years ago, there was hardly a platoon of them in the whole U.S. Last week in Manhattan, 15,000 of them trooped to the fourth annual hi-fi roundup, known as the Audio Fair. Partsmakers and plain fans, they took over 116 rooms of the New Yorker Hotel, set up their wares and turned on the switches...
...treatment. Publicist Carl Byoir was interrupted in mid-speech by a student who said politely: "I want to say to Mr. Byoir that we have a lot of questions to ask, and to stop the filibustering." Often the questions are as explosive as they are unexpected. A young New Yorker asked Democrat James Farley how much he contributed to the Democratic National Committee. Startled, Farley asked: "Me?" "Yes, sir." Farley blinked and replied: "Too much for my own good." Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's well-known poise was ruffled by persistent questions as to why she had contributed to such...
...patches and other attention-catchers, Manhattan Adman Frank Neuwirth hit upon a new one-a foot-long beard. He tried it in an ad for expensive ($7.50 to $20) Tiemaker Countess Mara Inc. (TIME, Dec. 2, 1946), and landed the store's account. In The New Yorker it was easily the ad of the week...
Since both the Republican and Democratic parties are controlled by essentially the same financial groupings, Hallinan said ". . . it makes about as much difference to the average voter whether Eisenhower or Stevenson is elected as it did to the average New Yorker whether Al Capone or Bugs Moran ran the numbers racket...
Miller recounted an incident that occurred when Edmund Wilson wrote a profile on Santayana for "The New Yorker." In the article, Wilson refers to his "parchment skin and black eyes." Miller described Santayana's complexion as cherubic, and his eyes as an intense brown. "Poor reporting," the philosopher muttered to Miller...