Word: yorkerism
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...Spare time is not idled away, but is spent in keeping up to date on current innovations in the trade. Sabotage and its detection is a popular subject these days, as well as lectures on fire-fighting in war areas. Ping-pong, pool, pinochle, reading Time and the New Yorker take up only a small portion of the fireman's 70-hour week. Inn line with the modern organization is the system of "group shifts," which allows for a 48-hour leave every six days...
...suit concerned Hearst Consolidated Publications, Inc. (twelve of the strongest Hearst papers and American Weekly), whose preferred stock was sold to the public for $50,000,000 in 1930. The plaintiff: Samuel Mann, a New Yorker who has 332 shares of the stock and a lawyer son. The general charge: that Consolidated had been dominated by Hearst (who owns common-stock control) for the benefit of his privately owned "upstream" companies. The demand: restitution to Consolidated of $32,500,000 which it was claimed had been lost through intercorporate finagling...
...popularly supposed to have been incapable. Chickamauga, which Wolfe slicked up unnaturally in the vain hope of selling it to the Satevepost, is a respectable experiment in the U.S. vernacular, as un-Wolfeishly plain as weathered bone. Also included: a steely-clean character sketch of a rich old New Yorker waking up; an almost religious essay on loneliness; a hard spanking of a literary critic who might be William Lyon Phelps or Henry Seidel Canby; a Swiftian attack on Irishmen; a few poignant pages on Cousin Arnold in which is resurrected the snorting ghost of that great comic character Bascom...
...dramatization, taken from the New Yorker Volume of Short Stories, was adapted for radio use by the DRS script director, Scot Matthews. It will be presented by Alexander Fanelli and John Freeman of the Dartmouth players...
...tactful double knock aroused Vag from his delicious reverie. He laid aside his copy of the latest New Yorker, and the physics text reposing beneath it in his lap, and lumbered towards the door. Probably another solicitor. His friends didn't tap on the door; they banged on it. Well, he had made short work of that Student Council fellow last night, and he felt prepared to face any attack on his privacy and purse this evening...