Word: yorkerism
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...asked for a job. After eight months he got one-through his high school friend Milton Caniff, later of Steve Canyon fame-with the Associated Press in New York. He wrote sports features, and for a time a chit-chat column about books and theatre called "A New Yorker at Large...
...pestilent congregation consists of 230,000 tons of soot, fly ash and other paniculate matter, 597,000 tons of sulphur dioxide, 298,000 tons of nitrogen oxides, 567,000 tons of hydrocarbons and 1,536,000 tons of carbon monoxide annually. It leaves every New Yorker with 730 Ibs. of pollutants to contend with every year...
...VISTA. The "domestic Peace Corps" has volunteers aged 18 to 80, and if anything, they are even more idealistic than the ones who went abroad. "There's probably a little less glory this way, at home, but it's more important than going overseas," said New Yorker Barbara Dunlap, a 22-year-old Skidmore graduate who lives in a Pima Indian settlement near Phoenix. "You have to solve your problems at home first." Paid $50 a month plus a subsistence allowance that varies from kregion to region, living at roughly the same level as the people they...
...Miss Teen-Age America to Lassie (her favorite television star). What makes Miss Ross different from thousands of other girls-about-town is that she writes about it. With deftness, lucidity, and wit. In Talk Stories, a collection of sixty "Talk of the Town" pieces from the New Yorker. Miss Ross has further established her reputation as a reporter sans rival and shows another side of the talent which produced Reporting and the now famous profiles of Hemingway and Stevenson...
...takes wobbly aim at a problem created by the old law: the fact that thousands of New Yorkers seek quickie divorces in Nevada, if they can wait six weeks, or in Mexico, where a day suffices. All this evades the usual U.S. rule that divorces may be granted only by the state where one of the partners actually lives. To enforce that rule, the new law says that a New Yorker retains his domicile unless he gives up his New York residence for 18 months...