Word: yorkerism
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...ever run out of money," John Held, Jr., Adams House art advisor and creator of the famous comic-sheet flapper, "Marge," stated last night, "I'm going to sue the CRIMSON for libel. I have never been an editor on either the 'New Yorker' or the old 'Life.' I was merely on their boards...
...served on the staff of the old Life when it was in its heyday. His widely syndicated "Marge" satirized the hip-flask, raccoon-coat days of the late twenties. "Marge" died with the repeal of prohibition and the market crash, and Held obtained a position with the New Yorker, for which he did a series of wood cuts reflecting "on the good old days" and "old American subjects...
Sorry you disliked my life of an average New Yorker (TIME, Dec. 18). . . . A cousinly misunderstanding is no fault of the average journalist. The average editor who employs Englishmen to write about you and Americans to write about the United Kingdom is not really to blame. The poor fish is the average reader who on both coasts of the Atlantic selects the worm to taste before he swallows the hook. Even you, mighty angler that you are, must not tell them the bait is phony; otherwise, we shall all go short on Fridays...
...graduated from Yale University's Sheffield Scientific School in 1921 as a mining engineer. He practiced his trade for two years, then left it for a job as reporter on Hearst's New York American. For five years (1925-30) Ingersoll was managing editor of The New Yorker...
Died. Ralph Hitz, 48, Viennese immigrant to the U. S. who floor-scrubbed, dish-washed, potato-peeled, super-sold his way into the presidency of the $22,000,000 Hotel New Yorker and National Hotel Management Co., Inc. (seven hotels); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Best-known of U. S. hotelmen, Ralph Hitz overwhelmed his customers with services, operated under the motto: "Give 'em value and you get volume." His employes' version: "We contact the hell...