Word: yorkerism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With in recent years a distinction has been noted between "New Yorker" notion and other action. This has been largely the work of that magazine's founder Harold Roes. When he wrote the prospectus for the magazine 26 years ago he said: "The New Yorker will be a reflection in words and pictures of metropolitan life. . . . This will be done by writers capable of appreciating elements of a situation." Rose had special regard for cartoonists in this plan writing that "The 'New Yorker' expects to be distinguished for its illustrations," and through the development of several excellent artists...
...Yorker's" cartoons were, from the first, as distinctive as its short stories. They are a commentary on modern, metropolitan life. As Peter Arno puts it in his introduction to his collection (1926-51), "Ladies and Gentlemen." "Harold Ross, in starting the "New Yorker" cost out the stale joke, the pun, the he-and-she formula. . . . In their place developed . . . a humor related to everyday life; believable, based on carefully thought-out, integrated situations...
...Yorker Comments...
...more of the same, The New Yorker reportedly pays Arno at the rate of $1,000 for a full-page cartoon. As he makes clear in a short introduction, it is blood & sweat money. Always a deadline worker, Arno lashes himself through grueling 24-and 36-hour stints. Credited with inventing the one-line caption, Arno says: "I suppose it appealed to me particularly because my English grandfather . . . had taught me that brevity was the soul of wit-a surprising maxim to come from a lifelong reader of Punch...
...Ariane Allen Ross asked a Manhattan court for separation and alimony from craggy Editor Harold Ross of The New Yorker. His "mental cruelty," charged Mrs. Ross, who graduated from college a Phi Beta Kappa at 17, took several turns. Among them: calling her a "stupid, mediocre, banal bore." Furthermore, he refused to take her on social calls because he said her "stupidity, boring chatter and lack of poise embarrassed him and injured his reputation...