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...American humor is steadily moving towards French wit," said Andre Maurois, distinguished French author and scholar, in an interview last night. "It is the influence of city life on American authors that is bringing this change, most evident in the humor of such typical publications as "The New Yorker," he continued...
Elwyn Brooks ("Andy") White for eleven years wrote the oxymoronic introductory paragraphs to each New Yorker issue. The tone of these paragraphs, a kind of precocious, off-hand humming, has been imitated but never exactly reproduced by his successors. In 1937 he resigned from The New Yorker, after writing an inimitable farewell whose gamut ranged from a baritone sigh to a neurasthenic squeak. True to his theme (that the town was getting too much for him) he went off to live in the Maine countryside, at North Brooklin. Thence he contributes a monthly page (considerably duller than his New Yorker...
Last week was published E. B. W.'s second slim collection of little prose pieces-most of them from the files of The New Yorker-which will please the melancholy humor of many a modern Jaques. E. B. W. dips the broken reed with which he writes into various liquids-diluted acid, crocodile tears, the milk of human kindness; and the thread of his writing is like the trail of a sometimes sympathetic, sometimes exasperating, always bewildered insect...
...country, in my opinion, has long needed a light and cheerful review of events in Washington ... I congratulate you . . ." wrote Franklin Roosevelt to Publisher-Editor Harry Newman in the first issue of Senator, a new magazine of Capital chitchat out last week. Modeled partly after the New Yorker, partly after Judge (which Publisher Newman also runs), Senator, in its first appearance, rambled like the garrulous old Senatorial barfly in plug hat and string tie that Norman Rockwell painted for its cover...
Known to readers of the New Yorker for stories above his pen name of Leonard Q. Ross, Dr. Rosten is no stranger either to eccentric research or to Hollywood. In 1937 he published The Washington Correspondents, based on a similar survey subsidized by Social Science Research Council. In 1937 he worked as a screen writer for Major Pictures Corp., to acquire "the neurosis of the profession...