Word: yorkerism
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...Heidelberg, Germany was frankly perplexed. To the editors of Heute, a U.S.-sponsored, LIFE-like magazine, she wrote: "I don't see how this is possible. Won't you please print the answer to the puzzle?" What baffled her was a reprint of Charles Addams' New Yorker cartoon showing one set of ski tracks passing both sides of a tree (see cut). From Heute's literal-minded German readers came a flood of confident answers. Samples...
...topic was Republican politics. Said Bertie: "I won't have anything to do with that fellow Stassen. He is no Republican, never was, and the same thing goes for Tom Dewey. He's no American; he's a New Yorker. . .. Like Willkie before him, he was put up by the international bankers in New York ... to save England and British Imperialism. ... I could have elected Willkie if he campaigned as an American.... Poor fellow, he thought Dewey beat him in the Wisconsin primary ... I beat him. . . . That's Tribune territory over there...
Most of the 17 short stories in this collection have already been printed in the New Yorker and Harper's Bazaar. They are the product of an able craftsman, content to plow a narrow field, and not very deeply...
Like most New Yorker short story writers, Author Parsons knows how to reproduce scenes from middle-class American life with photographic neatness, and a restraint that verges on bloodlessness. Author Parsons' characters are often worn to the bone by despair and nostalgia, but they are rarely impolite; they give vent to long sighs, but never to bad language...
...week's end the response to Shawn's hunch, and Hersey's restrained, first-rate reporting, was the biggest thing in New Yorker history. Book Critic Lewis Gannett called Hersey's piece "the best reporting . . . of this war." The New York Times, Herald Tribune and leftist PM applauded solemnly. Manhattan newsstands sold out early on publication day. Showman Lee Shubert tried to get the dramatic rights. In Princeton, N.J., the mayor asked all citizens to read the piece. Knopf planned to publish it as a book. A radio chain wanted Paul Robeson, Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne...