Word: yorkerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...preferred": American, Click, Collier's, Coronet, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Liberty, LIFE, Look, National Geographic, Newsweek, New Yorker, Omnibook, Pic, Reader's Digest, Redbook, Saturday Evening Post, TIME...
Williams bought them. Since then, VIP cartoons have titillated Collier's readers every week. Partch supplies his own gags, considers them the easiest part of his work. To the New Yorker he sells gags alone. He also sells cartoons to Manhattan's PM, draws ads for Wheaties and for Squirt (a California-made drink mixer...
...author. Twenty years ago, when Ellin Mackay was a contributor to the struggling New Yorker (she wrote an article, then thought to be sensational on the dull life, of debutantes), she met Irving Berlin at Jimmy Kelly's Greenwich Village nightclub. Berlin had then written the four Music Box Revues, adding Say It with Music and A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody to his long list of hits. He had amassed a fortune of $5,000,000, enjoyed an income of $500,000 a year. Ellin Mackay, second daughter of wealthy Clarence (Postal Telegraph) Mackay and his blue...
...last week. The book: The Rest of Your Life (Doubleday, Doran, $2.75). The author: Leo Cherne, young (31), curly-haired boss of Manhattan-famed Research Institute of America, Inc. Researcher Cherne has specialized in casting the U.S. business horoscope. His predictions have frequently been such flesh-creepers that New Yorker once dubbed his Institute "Cassandra...
Crazy Like a Fox includes 46 of the fey five-finger exercises with which Humorist Perelman has since tickled the funny bones and ribs of readers of the New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post and other magazines. This crowded showcase displays Perelman's talents as a gagman at their best. But it also reveals the monotony of his formula, which to some readers is as enervating, in its way, as the late Harold Bell Wright...