Word: yorkerism
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...paid no dividends, has cost President Keep & friends "something less" than $400,000. Revenue has all gone into expansion and promotion; plump, curly Dave Keep hopes eventually to have something that will rival the New Yorker. "If we need more money, we'll put it in," says...
Divorce Disclosed. Peter Arno (real name: Curtis Arnoux Peters), 38, clean-cut, cáfe-socialite cartoonist (The New Yorker); by Mary ("Timmie") Lansing, 24, beauteous socialite; her first, his second; in Litchfield, Conn. Grounds: "intolerable cruelty...
...Gilbert has been chaplain of the Connecticut Senate, sat in its House from 1927 to 1929, has been on the Middletown City Council, is now on its school board. For 25 years he has written for the Rural New-Yorker a homely column, full of health and heart, called "Pastoral Parson and His Country Folks." Sample: "Here comes a man and says . . . 'Can any be possibly saved who are not Episcopalians?' 'Well,' the Parson answers humorously, 'hardly any, perhaps a few choice souls.' " Mr. Gilbert in his youth learned barbering, still cuts his parishioners...
Among the Glamor Guys should be prolific Floyd Davis, Jon Whitcomb, Walter Klett, Gilbert Bundy, The New Yorker's Galbraith, and the Glamor Gal Ritchie (Barbara) Cooper...
...Please don't misunderstand me. The humor is of two distinctly different types of and though they may both be very funny, never the twain shall meet. It may be true that a glimpse at "The New Yorker' would leave an Englishman cold, but 'Punch' is to no great laughgetter over here, while in England it has'em in stitches...