Word: yorkerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years of age, the New Yorker was feeling grown-up and responsible. Until last week, it had generally managed to confine its twinges of social conscience to an occasional sententious One-World outburst on a page usually devoted to more urbane - or supercilious - matter. It seemed to believe that no one should talk in a loud voice about anything. But last week Eustace Tilley, the New Yorker's butterfly-watching dandy, was a man with a message...
...brilliant piece of journalism. The New Yorker's editors had practically stumbled into it. Originally, they planned to print Hersey's report in four articles. Then able, shy co-managing editor Bill Shawn, suggested running the whole thing at once. It took a while to convince Harold Ross, the New Yorker's terrible-tempered editor, a man given to juvenile and profane tantrums, and intuitive, often shrewd judgments. Ross is convinced that everyone on his staff but himself is in danger of going holy. One factor helped decide him: most of the magazine's regular departments...
...late to do anything about the cover which incongruously showed a picnic scene (New Yorker covers are made up four months in advance). But one editor suddenly thought: "My God, how would a guy feel, buying the magazine intending to sit in a barber's chair and read it!" Ross ordered a white band around the 40,000 New York newsstand copies, warning readers that there was nothing inside but Hiroshima...
...Dental surgery is just one of the phases of contemporary life that are kicked in the teeth by S. J. Perelman in his latest collection of diatribes - 25 essays, parodies, playlets, mock radio dramas, most of which have appeared in the New Yorker. Other Perelman subjects...
...deep breaths U.N. attaches did a little checking, discovered that stocky, 46-year-old Jimmy O'Neill not only meant what he said, but was capable of carrying out his offer. His Lincoln Warehouse Corp. had moved furniture for ex-Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, many another famous New Yorker. It had carried out huge moving jobs for Tiffany's, General Electric, Radio Corporation of America. Happily, U.N. accepted...