Word: yorkerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...however, a well-dressed New Yorker who called himself Dr. Joseph Knirim turned up in Vimoutiers determined to honor Marie Harel, "the discoverer of Camembert cheese." "I suffered from indigestion for months," explained Dr. Knirim, "and Camembert was the only food my stomach could absorb. I have carried across the seas this bunch of flowers to honor our common benefactress...
...Lonely Art. Modest, somber-eyed Jimmy Kilroe, 44, has earned the respect of horsemen and horseplayers the hard way. A New Yorker born and bred, he learned the lonely art of handicapping under one of the best handicappers of them all, the late John Blanks Campbell.* Beginning at the job of taking race entries and keeping files, Kilroe was soon making up handicap weights of his own, comparing his judgment with Campbell's. And he learned early that his boss insisted on an aide with opinions of his own. When he returned from the wars in 1945, a veteran...
Died. John Augustin McNulty, 60, old-time newsman, bar correspondent and gentle troubadour of cabbies, rummies and $2 bettors in Manhattan (Third Avenue, New York) and other places where elbows are bent (A Man Gets Around), veteran sketch writer for The New Yorker; of a heart attack; in Wakefield...
...office returns. It will predictably outrage an army of doctors, frighten thousands of patients, and justifiably annoy drug manufacturers. The medical mischance it purports to describe was always rare, is now almost obsolete. The whole story is only remotely faithful to its original, one of The New Yorker's "Annals of Medicine" articles, a sober, sound piece by Writer Berton Roueche that was titled "Ten Feet Tall...
...General Eisenhower's staff from D-day in Normandy to V-E day. ¶ Lewis Gruber, 60, was named the fourth president in four years for P. Lorillard Co. (Old Gold, Kent). His predecessor, William J. Halley, 58, moved down to head the finance committee. A native New Yorker, Gruber got a law degree from Tennessee's Cumberland University ('14), joined Lorillard in 1922 as a salesman. The executive shakeup. which also brought in a new advertising director, gives more company control to sales experts, less to financial and advertising advisers. Lorillard sales have dropped steadily since...