Word: yorkerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yorker Kingsley, who married Actress Madge Evans in 1939, set out to write plays while still at Cornell. He spent three years, much of it living with interns, on his first play, Men in White ("That was a longie"). It won the 1933 Pulitzer Prize. Then, in the same blend of melodrama and social conscience, came Dead End (1935), Ten Million Ghosts (1936), The World We Make...
...course. She picked herself the pseudonym of Isabel Bolton and, in 1946, published a novel in a new, free style, Do I Wake or Sleep. It consisted pretty much of the interior monologues of a woman of intuitions, like Isabel Bolton. This time, the critics were watching. The New Yorker's Edmund Wilson found the Bolton style "exquisitely perfect in accent"; some of it he compared to The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises. Said the Nation's Diana Trilling: "The most important new novelist in the English language to appear in years." All the critics...
Script (circ. 27,000), the West Coast imitation of The New Yorker, had almost written "The End" last Christmas, when the magazine's backers (including Moviemaker Sam Goldwyn and General Manager Bob Smith of the Los Angeles Daily News) pulled out. Publisher Ik Shuman, once an editor of The New Yorker, bought the monthly from them for $1, and tried to keep it going. But production costs were too high, and revenue too low. Last week Shuman sadly put the final issue to bed. Then he called his creditors together to write a P.S. to Script. Debts...
Monro became president of the new daily, called the Journal, which included on its masthead such present greats in the editorial world as E. J. Kahn '37 of the New Yorker and Joseph J. Thorndike, Jr. '34 managing editor of Life. Despite a brave start, the paper was forced out of business after a few weeks by debts and the difficulties of competition with an established monopoly...
...price of three sticks of gum, the New Yorker can escape his harried, subway-riding existence and enter the gaudy, slam-bang world of the tabloid Daily News and Mirror. There life can be newsy, glamorous, compassionate and sinful all at once. In Hearst's Mirror one morning last week, millions of readers of a paternity-suit story met a long-lashed brunette...