Word: yorkerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chrysler this week also unveiled two new lines-the Imperial and New Yorker Chryslers, both with h.p. upped to 250. To promote the new models, Chrysler President L. L. ("Tex") Colbert kicked off the biggest ad campaign in company history. But with all the shouting, it was still grimly apparent that Chrysler has a tough fight ahead. In the third quarter, Chrysler last week announced a loss of $12 million, its first loss since 1950 and one that cut nine months' earnings to $3,724,383, v. $55,676,548 in 1953. So far this year, Chrysler sales have...
...poor reception was no worse than that given other American plays; Born Yesterday, Our Town and The Rose Tattoo have all been flops in Paris. Said Actor-Playwright Jean Pierre Aumont: "New York can take foreign plays because the New Yorker is more aware of what is happening abroad. The Frenchman has the impression that Paris is the center of the world. He's just not concerned with what's happening elsewhere...
...professors pointed out that the appointee would almost certainly live in New York because the last Justice Jackson was a New Yorker, and the Supreme Court has almost invariably included at least one member from that state...
...heard over nearly as many stations (130) as Bishop Fulton Sheen's. His radio program, The Art of Living, with its 125 stations, does better than John Cameron Swayze's. His celebrity-studded monthly magazine, Guidepost, has a circulation of 656,000, or more than The New Yorker. And his nationally syndicated column, Confident Living, runs in more papers (146) than Leonard Lyons'. A statistical-minded friend of Dr. Peale's once calculated that the U.S. suffers from 7.5 billion headaches a year, and the pastor's great message is that religion can cure almost...
Steinberg spent seven years studying architecture in Milan before finally giving in to his own inherited taste for lighthearted art. He found it no work at all to whip up drawings that were usually biting, and sometimes skirted close to the beautiful as well. Commissions for The New Yorker helped bring him to Manhattan...