Word: yorkerism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, Harriman's party-lining paid off. Chairman Calvin L. Rampton of the Utah delegation to Chicago announced that at least eight of the state's twelve votes would go to the New Yorker. Harriman's campaign managers hoped for as many as a score more in New Mexico, Arizona and Montana. These were Harriman's first noteworthy conquests outside New York...
...Legend has it that one New Yorker, afraid his wife might try to contest his suit, posted a notice of intent in the courthouse men's room...
...soon as the ad appeared in The New Yorker last fall, all eyes were green in Manhattan's ad alley. "The Man in the Hathaway Shirt" depicted a white-shirted, debonair-looking fellow who was given a peculiar air of distinction by a black patch over his right eye. The ad was the inspiration of British-born David Ogilvy, 41, vice president of Manhattan's Hewitt, Ogilvy, Benson & Mather, Inc. He got the idea from pictures of ex-Ambassador Lewis Douglas, who has worn a patch ever since he lost the sight of one eye in a fishing...
John O. Whedon--Writer. Has published in Collier's New Yorker, Harper's, and others. In Hollywood, wrote for Ronald Colman, Groucho Marx, Noel Coward, Carole Lombard, Alexander Woolcott, Madeleine Carroll, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Did Duffy's Tavern script...
...different as possible from the one before. Author Ludwig Bemelmans works passionately in the opposite direction: he has grown prosperous and popular by writing the same book over & over again. It was gay and lively stuff 15 years ago when it was appearing in Story and The New Yorker; it still seems gay and lively today...