Word: yorkerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since he left Harvard in 1939 at the end of his Sophomore year, Brown has worked on Time and for the past year has been a member of the New Yorker editorial staff. In 1938 he won the $500 Shelley Prize for Poetry. Thompson has contributed to the New Republic and Poetry Magazine...
...heyday of Manhattan's stage the Theatre Guild published a quarterly house organ. Started in 1919, the Guild magazine became a monthly ten years later, in 1932 acquired a new name, Stage. About that time John Hanrahan, one of the early backers of The New Yorker, took over management of Stage. Up went circulation until it hit 55,000, up went Stage's price to 35?. Then Manhattan box-office receipts began to skid, and down went Stage with them. In June 1939, Stage dropped its curtain for the summer, did not reopen...
...downhearted was Ralph Ingersoll. He declared that his circulation was going up, argued that his onetime employer, The New Yorker, required some $750,000 capital before it turned the corner, although it had hoped that $100,000 would be enough (but The New Yorker did not go through reorganization). Having failed with $1,500,000, Publisher Ingersoll hoped to turn the corner with $2,000,000 or $2,500,000. Best of all, PM still had a Grade A angel...
...Schuster ($2). Extravaganza in an electrical engineer's laboratory: the first corpse is only charred around the wrists; the second "looks like Al Jolson singing 'Mammy.' " The solution is by Marty Cohen, a law-school cop who knows no watts but is a hard, bright New Yorker going places...
...little man. Bayles also paid close attention to the littler men who were Hitler's chief lieutenants, and witnessed some of their works - the burning of the Reichstag, the June blood purge. Now & again he would send a profile of one of them to LIFE or The New Yorker. They were portraits sketched with careful artlessness against the background of the subject's weird biography and crimes...