Word: yorkerism
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...repercussions of Henry Wallace's Detroit speechmaking (TIME, Aug. 2) refused to die. Wallace had loosely tossed around the word "Fascist," without naming or plainly indicating exactly whom he meant. A few Republican leaders had replied in kind. The press took them up. Said The New Yorker wisely...
...little boy, legs akimbo on a horse, riding off to maneuvers with his father and his father's men. One of Terry Allen's memories is of himself learning to ride, smoke, chew, cuss and fight at the earliest possible age. According to his biographer, The New Yorker's A. J. Liebling, Terry once found a playmate crying. The playmate explained that his mother had just spanked...
...gloomy as only a humorist can be. For years he has been studying, with the prying patience of a botanist, the queer human weeds he finds growing in the dingier interstices of Manhattan's bum-littered Bowery. But Mitchell is saddened when readers of The New Yorker, Esquire and other magazines chuckle at the results of his researches, these 20 profiles and stories, now collected for the first time in book form. For Humorist Mitchell professes to find nothing comic in his wacky human jujubes. He says he does not caricature them. Instead, he describes them with a loving...
Harold Ross, picket-toothed editor of The New Yorker, read in Exquisite Lucius Beebe's rococo column that he was shy a front tooth. Ross wrote in reply that he had all his front teeth, had a whopping gap between two of them, had refused his dentist's suggestion that it be filled in. Cried Ross to Beebe: ". . . You are making an eccentric...
This is Eric Hodgins, TIME'S Editorial Vice President, who was first Managing Editor, then Publisher of FORTUNE, before that was Managing Editor of the Youth's Companion, Associate Editor of Redbook. A graduate engineer, Hodgins is co-author of several widely-read scientific books. The New Yorker calls him "thin-haired, orbicular...