Word: yorkerism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twenty-five years . . . since The New Yorker set up in business," said a small passage in The New. Yorker's Talk of the Town last week, "and things have changed either greatly or not at all . . ." Thus, with the elaborate casualness that is as much its trademark as the elegant Eustace Tilley who annually adorns its cover, did The New Yorkernote its 25th birthday...
...Yorker readers who scanned the anniversary issue might get a deceptive sense that things have changed not at all: with a sentimentality that he would loudly scorn, Editor Harold Ross had rounded up contributions from such time-honored New Yorker favorites as E. B. White, James Thurber, Ogden Nash, John McNulty, Peter Arno, Gluyas Williams and the late Helen Hokinson. Readers with a long memory could even pick up the fourth part of a "profile"* of the late Playwright Wilson Mizner where Alva Johnston left off eight years...
This unabashedly tearful and trite film is the work of several talented people. It is based on a New Yorker short story entitled "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut." ("Poor, little Uncle Wiggily," says Miss Hayward, speaking of herself, "always trying to be helpful and always getting hurt.") The director is Mark Robson who directed "Champion" and "Home of the Brave." Miss Hayward, as well as Robert Keith, who plays her weary-wise father, are quite satisfactory in their roles. I doubt that Miss Hayward is deserving of an "Oscar" for this film, but as unwed mothers and alcoholies have won over...
...Foolish Heart (Goldwyn; RKO Radio) is the kind of movie that gives women a good cry and men a bad time. Strangely enough, it comes from a short story by J. D. Salinger in The New Yorker, literary stronghold of the stiff upper lip. Under the treatment of scripter-brothers Julius and Philip Epstein, the screenplay turns on all the emotional faucets of a Woman's Home Companion serial...
...concerned, Content is indeed Senior Editor Peckham's given name (she is married to Joseph Cowan, a former newspaperman). There have been Peckhams in New England since the 17th Century, including Contents and a Freelove or two, but TIME'S Content Peckham is a native New Yorker (New Rochelle). We first caught sight of her in 1930, after she was graduated from Bryn Mawr, when she applied for a researcher's job. She was told to get some experience and try -again...