Word: yorkerism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...standards, Café was well above average, a briskly paced, lighthearted series of variety acts with a minimum of Berlesque mugging. The Continental flavor was supplied by Swiss yodeling, Gypsy music and French acrobatics. But top honors went to shapely Singer Isabel Bigley, a New Yorker who went to London in 1947 as the lead in Oklahoma! and hopes that another year abroad will give her enough experience for a successful assault on Broadway. "But if M-G-M would like to twist my arm," she says, "I'd be happy to go into pictures...
...Louis," thought he knew a good man when he saw one; but even he did not realize that he had assembled "the most significant group of continental explorers ever brought together." The man who became the group's most outstanding graduate was a 24-year-old New Yorker named Jedediah Strong Smith, an ex-clerk on a Great Lakes freighter who had come to town in time to spot Ashley's ad. Three years later, when beaver-rich General Ashley retired from the field and sold his interests to Trapper Smith and two other lieutenants, they lost...
...Dodge Coronet 21.39, Kaiser Special 23.95; Studebaker Commander 23.79, Mercury 26.52, Hudson Pacemaker 22.60, Nash Ambassador 26.42, De Soto Custom 18.78, Oldsmobile "88" 20.19; Packard "8" 18.92, Chrysler Windsor 19.85, Oldsmobile "98" 19.45, Studebaker Land Cruiser 24.89; Lincoln 18.15, Frazer Manhattan 23.91, Chrysler New Yorker 17.11, Packard Super 16.00, Hudson Commodore 21.39; Kaiser Virginian 23.97, Cadillac "61" 22.97; Cadillac "62" 22.53, Lincoln Cosmopolitan 17.56; Cadillac "60" Special 22.08; Cadillac...
...college (Princeton) Bob Boyd played lacrosse and water polo, and was a member of the Triangle Club (amateur theatricals). A native New Yorker, he was graduated into the Depression year of 1932 as a psychology major ("of all things"). Openings in that field being scarce, he took a job demonstrating floor waxers. This led to selling magazine subscriptions and a job on Newsweek addressing envelopes to U.S. Senators. In 1938 Bob Boyd came to work for TIME...
...visit his daughter, Mrs. George Drew, wife of Canada's Tory party leader, and his grandchildren. But Manhattan and the opera house will see him again. Still a Canadian citizen, Johnson says "I have lived [in New York] too many years to be anything but a New Yorker...