Word: yorkerism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every child knows-and as readers of The New Yorker are regularly reminded-there lives, in that gloomy, crumbling mansion on the other side of any town, a happy family of unmitigated fiends. They are poor as cemetery mice, but honest as the night is long, and like true soldiers of the great Damnation Army, they darken their corner of town with all the vices that the Devil-with some help from a man named Charles Addams-can conceive...
...means certain, to the thousands of Charles Addams admirers, just who (or what) Addams is. Some hold that he is just a man who has a macabre sense of humor, expressed in horribly funny drawings for The New Yorker. Others wonder uneasily how Addams came to know so much about the inhabitants of Satan's Little Acre, if he himself is not at least a weekend commuter (represented in the drawings, some think, by that disembodied head that sometimes grows on a rotting floorboard and stares at the observer like a fungus with a mind...
Last year St. Clair McKelway wrote a series of articles for the "New Yorker" about an elusive counterfeiter. Known as "Mr. 880" from the number of his Treasury Department file, this counterfeiter left a trail of disarmingly crude one-dollar bills across four boroughs of New York and the Staten Island Ferry, and led the Secret Service the longest chase in its history...
...last 14 years Brendan Gill has been writing for The New Yorker, contributing deft stories and profiles, well-considered book reviews, and items for "The Talk of the Town" section. At 36, he is starting later than a lot of this year's first novelists, but evidently not because he has wasted time. In The Trouble of One House, his storytelling method, an indirect, impressionistic one with something of the quality of Virginia Woolf's, takes him precisely where he wants...
Mister 880 (20th Century-Fox) adapts the authentic story-almost too good to be true-of the most elusive man the U.S. Secret Service ever tried to catch: a lovable old counterfeiter who struck off amateurish one-dollar bills. St. Clair McKelway told the story in three New Yorker articles last year. Scripter Robert (It Happened One Night) Riskin retells it with just enough respect for the flavorsome facts and just the right knack of working them into warm, humorous fiction...