Word: yorkerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ciardi, who flew with the B-29's out of Saipan, is now trying to climb into the stratosphere of contemporary American poetry. Although few people except New Yorker and Atlantic readers have ever heard of him, he finds himself sharing the 1946-47 lecture platform with Robert Frost (November), Wallace Stevens (February), and T. S. Eliot, who will speak sometime...
...hosts found her almost suspiciously normal, a slender, friendly woman of 40 who seemed as unaffected as her correspondence. Green-eyed Mollie was no brittle careerist but a woman who, besides working for the New Yorker, was her' own housekeeper, did her own canning...
...Holiday's rescue (TIME, July 8). One was British-born Art Editor James Yates, who had gone to "X" after restyling the Satevepost during the war. The third was wise and wiry Ik (pronounced Ike) Shuman, who left a top job at the New Yorker four years ago to work first as "magazine consultant" to Marshall Field, then for Esquire's Dave Smart...
Last week on the cover of the New Yorker, Eustace Tilley took his annual gander at a pink butterfly. Inside, back among the brandy and perfume ads appeared a feature not nearly so old as Eustace Tilley, but already as much of a standby: the quietly perceptive weekly Letter from London. (Last week's topic was the coal crisis: "like living a bad patch of the war all over again...
...letter was in familiar surroundings, but its author was not. Mollie Panter-Downes, London correspondent for the New Yorker since the day Britain went to war, had come to Manhattan to meet her bosses for the first time. The "goddam bunch of neurotics," as terrier-tempered Editor Harold Ross calls his jumpy staff, were charmed...