Word: yorkerism
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...more ways than the obvious visual ones, The New Yorker since its founding in 1925 has seemed almost immune to dramatic change. It has had only two editors in those 47 years, Harold Ross and the man who took over after Ross's death in 1951, William Shawn. The devotion to low-key fiction and gentlemanly criticism has persisted, as have the horse-racing column and such self-mocking images as Eustace Tilly and an imaginary correspondent called "The Long-Winded Lady...
...male between 14 and 65. Indeed, guns are used in 65% of all U.S. killings. Twenty percent of the victims are dispatched by knife, while poison is rarely used. In Manhattan, there have been two recent cases of murder by bow and arrow, and some years ago another New Yorker attempted murder by rattlesnake. As Princess Sita observed in Ramayana, the ancient Indian epic of nonviolence: "The very bearing of weapons changeth the mind of those that carry them...
Died. Jane Grant, 79, early Women's Liberationist and co-founder of The New Yorker magazine; of cancer; in Litchfield, Conn. Though she came to New York with hopes of a musical career, Grant's real talent was as a journalist. She joined the New York Times in 1912 and became the paper's first woman general assignment reporter. During World War I she met Harold Ross when he was a private working on Stars and Stripes. They married, then combined their resources to form The New Yorker. In 1921 she also helped organize the Lucy Stone...
...press!" No one, save perhaps President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, an avid listener and confidant, was safe from the Winchell shaft. He railed against "Hitlerooting" U.S. Senators, accused Defense Secretary James Forrestal of plotting a Wall Street dictatorship. Once, when a lengthy study of Winchell in The New Yorker reported that "41.2% of the columnist's items are completely inaccurate," he blasted back that the magazine's editor Harold Ross did not wear underwear. (100% inaccurate...
...which has nothing at all to do with the plot and is probably all the better for it. As proper compliment to the direction, Franco Colavecchia has done a swell job of set design--his complicated arrangement of backdrops and scrims are like a series of Saul Steinberg New Yorker covers--and B. Allen Odom has contributed a witty display of costuming. Parmer Fuller's musical direction at moments approaches mere cocktail music (in which, the program claims, Fuller is well-versed), but is saved by Dean Herington's clever orchestrations...