Word: yorkerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...readers of the high-necked New York Times. It drew stares from some readers of TIME, FORTUNE, This Week and the Saturday Evening Post, which also ran the illustrated (see cut) ads. It also drew a shocked cry of "bad taste" from Advertising Age and protests from the New Yorker, LIFE, and other magazines which refused to run other Springmaid copy until such phrases as "ham hamper, lung lifter" and "rumba aroma" were deleted. Not in months had advertising tittups caused such a tizzy...
...White, a founding stylist of the New Yorker, got an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Yale...
...native New Yorker, I find TIME'S article profoundly offensive as well as inaccurate as a portrait...
...native New Yorker who feels that way about it is TIME'S Terry Drucker, who researched the story. Her faith was somewhat shaken, however, by paragraphs like the following one, in which the writer left the facts for her to fill in: "In a single day New York uses KOMING gallons of water, imports KOMING tons of food, spews out KOMING gallons of sewage and KOMING tons of garbage. In winter it needs KOMING gallons of fuel oil. KOMING million people travel daily on its KOMING miles of subway...
...Yorker magazine reported last week that an attorney who sent the President a similar suggestion got a vastly different answer-a form letter signed by a White House secretary, which said: "The President has asked me to thank you for your letter of April 23. He has read it with interest, and wants you to know that he is always glad to receive suggestions such as yours...