Word: yorkerism
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City editor of the New York Herald Tribune for seven sparkling years, author of a rapid-fire book of reminiscences called Mrs. Aster's Horse, frequent contributor to The New Yorker, Stanley Walker was a name to make any publisher's cheeks glow with satisfaction...
...outlander like most New Yorkers (he hailed from Texas), Walker had lived in Manhattan for 20 years, worked most of that time on the Herald Tribune. He loved New York, felt ill at ease in Philadelphia. But his job on the Ledger was welcome. For ever since he had left the Herald Tribune in 1935 to become managing editor of the Mirror, Stanley Walker had been moving about, going mostly down, not up. After six months on the Mirror he had shifted to the American (now defunct), then to The New Yorker, then to the New York Woman (also defunct...
...Jules Remains' serial novel, Men of Good Will, is like reading backfiles of French newspapers from Oct. 6, 1908. The New York Times's hardworking Critic Ralph Thompson once remarked in a fit of exasperation that Remains' "theory of fiction is almost intolerable." But The New Yorker's Clifton Fadiman has stuck to his opinion that Men of Good Will "is the Comedie Humaine of and for the 20th Century." Tired critics and trustful critics have divided over the question whether the finished job (in 27 volumes, as planned) will rank as one of the great...
Gertrude, the average New Yorker's wife, came from an old New England family. "In Gertrude's home in the South it was felt that she might have done better for herself." They were married as soon as they had the price of an automobile, for "in America you'd no more propose to a girl without a car than marry her without a ring...
...London last week Douglas Hastings admitted that in his two weeks' inspection he might have missed some aspects of a New Yorker's life. Said he: "New York is a hellish place to live, but it's the greatest sideshow on earth...