Word: yorkerism
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Romance of the week broke in tiny Plymouth, Ohio, where Millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 42, married the village doctor's daughter, pretty Eleanor Searle, 32. Surprised as anybody was The New Yorker, whose Whitney profile appeared next day with not a mention of the bride. When they met in 1937 she was a receptionist at Pan American Airways, he the polo-playing, twice married chairman of the board. She had come to Manhattan some seven years before to study singing as the protégée of aged Impresario Dan Frohman, who hailed from nearby Sandusky...
...Manhattan's glittery Hotel New Yorker last week, more than 1,000 members of the National Retail Credit Association argued for four days and adopted a resolution: to tighten the screws on installment credit...
Thus last week wrote the New Yorker's Janet Planner-now in the U.S. but long the New Yorker's Paris correspondent in one of the best recent reports on the humiliating fate of the French press. A sobering document, it deserved double reading since the French press-by its own venalities, and its failure to see and warn the French people of the weaknesses of France-must be held in good part accountable for the disaster in which it is a chief victim...
...Miami Beach) and Manhattan's Copacabana. In these resorts he has featured tropic atmosphere and a tall, affirmative rum drink called the Zombie, shrewdly advertised: "Only Two Zombies to a Customer." Imperturbable showman Proser himself doesn't like rum, sticks to Scotch-&-water, once told a New Yorker reporter: "I got a lot of saloons. So what...
...characters Bella Gross, a private secretary who will not let herself be called a stenographer; her father and mother; and the young man she thinks occasionally of marrying, Max Fine, a C.P.A. who will not let himself be called a bookkeeper. All the stories (originally printed in The New Yorker and now illustrated by The New Yorker's Sydney Hoff) achieve the distinction of being not only funny but sympathetic...