Word: yorkerism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...puffy, spectacled native New Yorker with a smudge-sized mustache and disappearing black hair, Rosenberg was the fourth U.S. citizen arrested in the atomic spy roundup that began after the arrest...
Died. Lawrence Morris Markey, 51, reporter and novelist, The New Yorker's original (1925-33) "Reporter at Large"; killed by a rifle bullet (the coroner entered an open verdict); in Halifax...
...Irish emotions welled up in the 66-year-old father of the documentary film, Robert (Nanook of the North) Flaherty: "It's very sad for me; most of my pals are gone, we're in another age." Also back in his hometown (Aspen, Colo.), shock-headed New Yorker Editor Harold Ross said that he hoped to clear up a mystery: "My mother always told me that [I was born] on the day Grover Cleveland was elected. But I've never been able to figure out why they'd have an election on a Sunday...
...Mother to cover up that hole in the wallpaper, Babbitt Junior would, of course, use a Picasso." Where the older Babbitt hashed over baseball and real-estate prices at his Booster Club luncheons, the new Babbitt talks knowingly (" 'knowing' is the word") about The New Yorker, sex and existentialism in an "adequate little French restaurant in the East Fifties." Where the old Babbitt merely hated art, the new Babbitt "hugs it to death...
...course " said Macy's, Manhattan's biggest department store, in a holiday ad this week. "The air is so fresh, the grass is so green, the animals are so audible. But . . . Does the country love us?" Pausing to "survey the blandishments that have lured many a New Yorker away from the safe familiarity of asphalt pavements and carbon monoxide," Macy's offered its own glossary of country terms and phrases for New Yorkers. Excerpts...