Word: yorkerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ignoscenti, however, a word or two of explanation may still be necessary. Let it be said, then, that Samuel Goldwyn and Friends have taken a little but justly-famous Thurber short story from a "New Yorker" of a few years back about mild, henpecked Walter Mitty and his daydreams of grandeur--and upon it they have based a full-sized picture, complete with Goldwyn Girls. The original was simple, poignant, and pathetically amusing. The greatly expanded, glamorized, seat-song-studded cinema product is not; as indeed it could never be. But is this kind of comparison a fair one? Does...
...poet, whose works have appeared in the New Yorker and other magazines, is a member of the Massachusetts PCA executive committee and chairman of its eighth district...
Stock Tunes. The New York Stock Exchange, "in the interest of encouraging sound investment and responsible ownership of securities," will sponsor its first radio program, a weekly 55 minutes of "good" musical recordings (on Manhattan's highbrow WQXR), beginning the end of this month. Quipped one bearish New Yorker: "The theme song should be 'Where Has My Little Dog Gone...
...best will in the world, for any one paper to tell all the truth), it is valuable to read two with opposite policies to get an idea of what is really happening." It also provides him with copy for a witty-and sometimes windy-department in the New Yorker called "The Wayward Press," a running commentary on the behavior of the daily (mainly Manhattan) newspapers. This week in The Wayward Pressman (Doubleday; $2.95), Liebling publishes a collection of his columns with enough autobiographical notes to establish his credentials...
Sandwich Man. As a war correspondent and writer for the New Yorker, Joe Liebling, a fat, friendly man who likes to listen while he works, proved himself one of the best U.S. reporters. Before that his career was often more down than...