Word: yorkerism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there are no rich Radcliffe alumnae, corresponding to these who assist Harvard periodicals, who are willing to give money to a magazine, rather than directly to the college. Another trouble is that no Radcliffe magazine has built up enough prestige to attract the undergraduate manuscripts offered to the New Yorker and other professional periodicals...
...York or 'New Yorker'?" Howell asked somewhat wryly. "In New York there is no immediate pressure, but the reservoirs will be below normal demand for another four years...
...native New Yorker of Russian descent, Sobell went to C.C.N.Y., where he became a classmate and close friend of Julius Rosenberg, accused of being a top spy in the atom ring (TIME, July 31). Engineer Sobell worked on top-secret U.S. radar and electronic devices for the Navy from 1942 to 1947, was working on more top-secret Government devices at Manhattan's Reeves Instrument Orp. until his sudden trip south. He was described by a fellow employee at Reeves as "the genius type," a man who could carry plenty of complex data in his head. Sobell...
Bill O'Dwyer was forever denouncing Tammany Hall, which the late Fiorello La Guardia had all but smashed, but when election time came around, he would be found, cozy in the corner of the Tammany tiger. Recently, ex-Cop O'Dwyer disturbed many a New Yorker by denouncing a prosecutor who was investigating crookedness on the police force (TIME, July...
...Mademoiselle) of a missionary's effort to hold the attention of primitive Indians by playing them jazz records; Peggy Bennett's sketch (Harper's Bazaar) of the thoughtless, almost affectionate cruelty young boys can show to each other; and Edward Newhouse's story (The New Yorker) of a father who delights in ceremonial tributes to his dead soldier...