Word: yorkerism
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...sensitive chisel can tease stone to life, and Saul Baizerman's Eve proved that it is also possible to hammer life into a sheet of copper. The water-colors ranged from the sweet, wet realism of Californian John Langley Howard's Coast Line to New Yorker Hans Hofmann's wholly abstract and strikingly handsome Composition...
Fourteen Hours (20th Century-Fox). A suicidal young man named John Warde stood the U.S. on its ear 13 years ago when he perched all day on the 17th-floor ledge of Manhattan's Gotham Hotel before going over the edge. Inspired by Joel Sayre's New Yorker account, "The Man on the Ledge," skillful moviemakers have turned one of 1938's most exciting news events into a tense, semi-documentary drama that bids firmly for 1951 film honors...
...Round Table. Everybody read F.P.A.'s "Conning Tower" in the Tribune; Deems Taylor was the World's bright young music critic; George Kaufman was the influential drama editor of the Times; Harold Ross, editor of the American Legion Weekly, was soon to embark on his New Yorker venture; and Dorothy Parker was living, as usual, on the edge of disaster-she had just lost her drama critic's job at Vanity Fair* (at Showman Florenz Ziegfeld's request because Dottie had roasted Mrs. Ziegfeld, alias Billie Burke...
...very flimsy, substituting the eternal hexagon for the eternal triangle. Although acquitted by a hung jury, the hero, Richard Todd, is still suspected of murdering his evil, beautiful wife. Since Todd gives such an insipid performance, it is difficult to believe that the could murder anything. A New Yorker, played with incredible shallowness by Ruth Roman, decides to prove this after their very first encounter. Their personalities undergo a radical change every ten minutes, and every change is more trite than the one before. The result is no personality...
...were primed last week to win their first national indoor titles at the A.A.U. track & field championships in Manhattan. Gehrmann, who intended to run only in the 1,000-yd. event this time, never arrived; his plane was grounded in Milwaukee by bad weather. FBI-man Wilt, a New Yorker, had no such travel problems. He won the mile race (by 20 yds.) in 4:09.4. Other title winners...