Word: yorkerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said New Yorker Editor Harold Ross: "He came to me and said he was 40 years old and wanted to do something else." Added the 'New Yorker's book editor: "I thought it was time to move over and give someone else a chance to sit in that seat." Thus amicably last week the New Yorker and pudgy, erudite Clifton ("Kip") Fadiman parted company. In ten years Fadiman had become the smartest, probably the best-known, and at times one of the most influential book reviewers in the U.S. Now, said he: "I'm through with reviewing...
Moneyed Man. After college Fadiman taught high-school English (1925-27), then became a manuscript reader for Simon & Schuster, book publishers. Soon he was editor-in-chief. In 1933, still hanging on to an S & S editorial job, he joined the New Yorker. Naturally a fast reader, he became even faster after zipping through Walter B. Pitkin's The Art of Rapid Reading. By wolfing his fact and fiction, he had time left for a score or more of profitable extracurricular ventures...
...operates a flourishing radio talent agency, Fadiman Associates, Ltd. He is on the editorial committee of The Readers Club, a book-of-the-monthly sort of organization that deals in $1.25 classics. Estimates of his income go as high as $100,000 a year, beside which his New Yorker salary was peanuts...
Miss Jean Arthur is a personable young New Yorker on a gruesomely predigested bus tour of the prewar West. The tour begins to interest her when, at a rodeo, bronco-busting John Wayne falls on, and all but busts, her. The pair recuperate in a deafening Western barroom, involve themselves in a saloon free-for-all, settle down to their essential business on a hay wagon and, after Miss Arthur misses her bus, in a sinister small-town hotel...
Boolba lived in New York City for many years, and, although he considers himself a New Yorker, he tries to outgrow it. He plans to move out to the middle west in the future...