Word: yorkerism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orchestra has played in Boston at the Latin Quarter, the Meadows, the Statler Hotel, and the Copley Plaza. His New York engagements have included the Hotel New Yorker and the Biltmore...
Shadow in the Sky (M-G-M), based on a New Yorker short story by Edward Newhouse, finds ex-Marine Ralph Meeker committed to a veterans' hospital because of his morbid tendency to hide under tables whenever it rains. When he is finally pronounced well enough to move in with his sister and brother-in-law (Nancy Davis and James Whitmore), they at first hesitate to bring him into close contact with their two children. But eventually they give in to the urgings of conscience embodied in Jean Hagen, a whimsical young woman who has met Meeker at hospital...
...Yorker...
Chrysler New Yorker...
...only action in this unfortunate situation can be to make deepest apologies to The New Yorker, to Alfred A. Knopf, the publisher of the Lawrence story, and to our readership for our unintentional abrogation of their good faith. George A. Kelley, President, The Harvard Advocate