Word: yorkerism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether Thurber's drawing requires psychiatry or not, a great many people, including New Yorker Editor Harold Ross, cannot get enough of it. A series of murals, executed by Thurber years ago in Manhattan for Tim Costello's Third Avenue saloon (known to its clientele as "The Chop House of Broken Dreams"), is one of the extracurricular features of the establishment. The late Paul Nash, British painter and art critic, once declared Thurber "a master of impressionistic line," comparing him to the early Matisse...
Mamie Thurber has gone on performing. Her husband died in 1939 at the age of 72, but she is still at it, an amazing old lady of 85, with piercing grey eyes under black brows, and none of her staggering faculties impaired. Wolcott Gibbs, of The New Yorker, has written of Thurber's "sure grasp of confusion." Nobody who ever heard Jim's mother tell a long, detailed, uproarious misadventure story would wonder where his sureness of grasp came from. There are oldtimers in Columbus who insist that Jim is but his mother's pale copy...
That fall and winter, he bombarded The New Yorker, a struggling humorous weekly little more than a year old, with 20 pieces, all of which were rejected. Althea argued that he was sweating too much over them and suggested that he bat one out in 45 minutes. On his next Sunday off, he did. It was about a man who got caught in a revolving door. The New Yorker bought...
Even on the Pennsylvania's most profitable passenger run-New York to Washington-the complaints pile up: the food is often poorly prepared, the roadbed rough, the coaches littered. Many a New Yorker will spend an extra hour, ride the Baltimore & Ohio to Washington to avoid the discomforts of Pennsy travel...
Closer to the Thames there is a cleverly laid-out building which tries to prove that Britishers are as mixed racially as the native New Yorker is supposed to be Right next to it is another building called the Lion and the Unicorn, a sort of museum of above average interest containing things "very English" in the fields of literature, politics, language, and customs...