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Many a New Yorker well remembers March 1936, when, for 15 days, he climbed and panted up & down skyscraper office buildings, apartments, hotels left elevator-less by the building-service strike. Not so many remember the smoothly smiling, dapper man named George Scalise (rhymes with police), who was one of the war council running the strike...
...University, she returned to Indianapolis. From 1915 to 1917 she held a job as cinema critic (she thinks she was the first reporter with that title) on the Indianapolis Star. In 1921 she arrived in Paris, inquisitive, amiable, amused. In 1925 she wrote her first letter for The New Yorker...
...least twice a month for 15 years, Paris letters signed "Genêt" have appeared in The New Yorker and have been among the best things in it. In a style so well turned that epigrams seemed pure condescension, Genêt has written of everything Parisian from the dernier cri to the dernière crise without slipping from a fashionable tone...
Pressed to explain, Janet ran a distraught hand through her hair and recabled: "Well, for example, in France nobody ever kills anyone he doesn't know." An American in Paris is a selection of the best of her New Yorker and Vanity Fair sketches. Each a mosaic of tidbits culled from hundreds of informants, each sleek with refined comedy, these reports and profiles are a valuable dossier on the very highest life of the past 20 years...
Fiorello Henry LaGuardia. The 103rd Mayor of New York City (second tough est political job in the U. S.) is the greatest paradox of all the leaders. Thought of as an utter New Yorker, the duck-bottomed Little Flower spent his years from three to 20 in South Dakota, Arizona, Florida, is as Western as Nebraska's Norris, Wisconsin's La Follettes, Idaho's Borah. He talks the most direct American language of any leader, speaks Italian, German, Croatian, Yiddish, French, Spanish. Short, rubbery, unmilitary, he is a U. S. Army Air Corps major and a veteran...