Word: yorkerism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bulletin boards in The New Yorker's drab Manhattan office last week went a notice: "William Shawn has accepted the position of editor of The New Yorker, effective today." The announcement, signed by Raoul Fleischmann, the publishing company's president and largest stockholder, came as no surprise. As second in command under the late editor, Harold Ross, 44-year-old Shawn was his natural successor, although outwardly he is as different from Ross as The New Yorker is from the National Geographic...
...Draper was called home to become Under Secretary of the Army. Then, before he could get deeply back in investment banking, New York's Governor Dewey asked him late in 1950 to take over the debt-ridden, wreck-ridden Long Island Rail Road. When he accepted, The New Yorker quipped: "He has a good head for aches...
...woods of Hollywood Hills, an area just north of Hollywood. There, deer, skunks, possum and even rattlesnakes are often seen. To complete the illusion of country life, almost everybody in Hollywood Hills reads the Canyon Crier (circ. 6,500), a fortnightly tabloid which one admirer calls "a New Yorker with its shoes off." For its pheasant-under-glass audience, the homey Crier dishes up an oatmeal fare. It treats everybody in Hollywood Hills as if they were small-town neighbors. The Crier reports their most trivial doings at home-and treats Reader Charlie Chaplin the same as his postman...
There are no toughie writers in Martha Foley's Best of the Best, and only a few of The New Yorker school, e.g., Kay Boyle, Irwin Shaw, in civilized coughs of irony. The bulk of the book consists of honest, strongly felt stories by authors who have profited from the example of such pioneers as Anderson and Hemingway, but have had enough intelligence and drive to cut their own paths. Stories by Nelson Algren, Erskine Caldwell, Paul Horgan, Albert Maltz, Jean Stafford and Wallace Stegner deal with such basic human situations as the feelings of parents as they take...
...Marx, whose appearance on this week's cover is an introduction to the department. Groucho appeared on our cover once before, along with three of his four brothers, in 1932.This week's Personality story is the work of Joel Sayre, who has written for TIME, The New Yorker and Hollywood...