Word: yorkerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. John Hersey, 43, author (A Bell for Adano, Hiroshima, The Wall), campaign speech writer for Adlai Stevenson, World War II TIME-LIFE foreign correspondent; and Mrs. Barbara Day Addams Kaufman, 37, first wife of The New Yorker's Cartoonist Charles (Monster Rally, Home Bodies) Addams; he for the second time, she for the third; in Fairfield, Conn...
...weeks later Lowe got Pierce to appear before the Miami CAP. The hard-pressed Miamians were stunned to hear New Yorker Pierce say that he had netted $118,775 from the sale of five yachts, given some of the money directly to the New York CAP, invested the rest in a Manhattan building-and-loan association and an airplane sale and rental business in Linden, N.J. He still had a string of unsold yachts and $15,500 in cash, which he offered to the Miami CAP as compensation for having solicited gifts in its territory...
...support of the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket two years ago, looked around for another candidate. Pastor Powell (Abyssinian Baptist Church) churned into an oratorical frenzy. Cried he: "I am being purged because obviously I am a Negro and a Negro should stay on the plantation." Powell called New Yorker De Sapio "a Mississippi boss" and "a liar," spun off insults at Republicans and Democrats alike, announced that he would run for an eighth term as an independent Democrat. ¶ Conservative Republican Frederic R. Coudert Jr., 60, whose vote-pulling power in Manhattan's East Side silk-stocking 17th Congressional District...
...good fortune have announced similar purpose, and with almost tedious results they have failed. However much the birth of a new publication may warm the collective heart of the International Typographers Union, a magazine needs to stand for something more concrete than benefaction to ill-used literati. The New Yorker seems to seek out urbanity and reminscence of childhood; The Atlantic at once flirts with the ghost of William Dean Howells and holds hands, perhaps behind her back, with a stable of socially-aware Harvard professors; and Time, we all know, recognizes its peculiar calling with a zest...
Upper-Medium-Price Class. Chrysler New Yorker, 21.0217; De Soto Fireflite, 19.6573; Mercury Turnpike Cruiser, 18.8390; Mercury Park Lane, 17.4186; Oldsmobile 98, 17.4849; Buick Century, 17.6698; Edsel Citation, 17.2474; De Soto Fireflite...