Word: yorkerism
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...divorced woman's alimony slops when she remarries-and does not revive even if her new marriage turns out to be a nullity. New Yorker Harry Herscher happily quit paying his ex-wife Alice $125 a week when he discovered that she had been remarried for 68 weeks. Alice reclaimed alimony on a compelling ground: her second husband had not been divorced from a previous wife and her second marriage was void. Too bad, ruled New York Civil Court Judge Sidney H. Asch. Since Alice "intended to abrogate her right to support" when she remarried, Harry...
...Yorker sentenced to life imprisonment is "civilly dead"-his family can even dispense with his name. Mark Fein was a respectable Manhattan container manufacturer who secretly consorted with gamblers and prostitutes. Last year Fein received a 30-year-to-life sentence for murdering his bookie to avoid paying a $23,898 World Series bet. To shield her three children from the seamy publicity, Fein's wife Nancy sought to resume her maiden name of Nahon. Permission granted, ruled Judge George Starke last week. Not only has Fein lost all civil rights, from suing to voting to making contracts...
...blind spot in your Essay: you say, "The New Yorker knows that he is making a selection among the best that is available." That word knows is the very essence of New York. Less provincial would have prompted thinks or believes...
...this series of essays, New Yorker Correspondent Joseph Wechsberg examines seven of the world's leading merchant or investment bankers. Though he is himself the son and grandson of bankers, Wechsberg ignores a lot of the basics of the business and, with the exception of a chapter on Wall Street's Lehman Brothers, shortchanges the potent U.S. bankers to concentrate on those of London's City. But his stories have a richness of color and some details of remarkable deals that have turned money into factories, jobs and useful products for everybody's compound interest...
...attention after it published-as a sly commentary on the Christian atheism of Thomas J. J. Altizer and William Hamilton-a mock obituary for God, written by Poet Anthony Towne in the noncommittal style of the New York Times. The obit had previously been turned down by The New Yorker, the Christian Century and, of course, the Times-which later reprinted...