Word: yorkerism
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...time, it seemed to Transit Radio Inc. like a fine idea. With busloads of hapless passengers as audiences, music-and commercials-could be broadcast in urban buses all over the U.S. The plan was fought by groups of indignant passengers, by newspaper editorials and magazines (notably The New Yorker), all charging that bus broadcasts were an invasion of the bus rider's privacy. Last year the company won a favorable Supreme Court decision and thought its troubles were over. But the bus-riding public and the nation's advertisers combined to overrule the Supreme Court...
...Yorker, I know that housewives there who didn't wrap their garbage were considered dirty and filthy ; in Indianapolis, however, we are proud that no garbage is wrapped - in fact, we have a law prohibiting it. This is wonderful for the rats...
...Republicans have not faced since Harding succeeded Wilson) has slowed down the Eisenhower Administration until GOPoliticos are grumbling impatiently. Last week Dwight Eisenhower moved to solve it by shifting control of patronage from White House Aide Sherman Adams to Ike's new, hand-picked National Committee chairman, New Yorker Leonard Hall...
Appearing in the "Speaking of Pictures" department of today's issue, are the sketches of Al Capp, Chester Gould, creator of Dick Tracy, and three New Yorker cartoonists--Charles Addams, O. Soglow, and R. Taylor...
Dark Star still led at the mile mark, with a quarter-mile to go. Some fans found it necessary to take a quick glance at their programs: Park Star was New Yorker Harry Guggenheim's colt, ridden by Jockey Henry Moreno. Correspondent was still second. And where was Native Dancer? It was getting late...