Word: yorkerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Girls. Coates, a 33-year-old New Yorker, lined up a cameraman and a producer-the Mirror's former assistant news editor, Jim Peck. He called his show Confidential File and set out to find some offbeat stories. He did not have to search far. His first show exposed the B-girl (barroom shill) racket in Los Angeles. Since then Coates has run programs on a homosexual (who freely showed his face on the program and was fired from his job the next day), shoplifters in action, a narcotics addict, a hypnotized woman, singing Brahms's Lullaby, giving...
...glow with the patina of timelessness. The Italian stories, put up in the hurry and scurry of the post-World War I decades by such contemporary literary architects as Alberto Moravia, Carlo Levi and Vasco Pratolini, rock with life, and occasionally with shaky craftsmanship. American readers, surfeited with New Yorker-like tales of muted discontent, may find both collections refreshing reminders of what Italy's Ignazio Silone calls "the really important events of life-birth, love, suffering, death...
Comely, amber-eyed Phyllis McGinley is a suburban housewife and mother whose lively curiosity and needle-pointed mind produce some of the most wryly pleasant light verse now being written. New Yorker readers have delighted for 20 years in the stings of her short barbs, sharpened on the complexities of modern living. She has published six books of poetry (the last, in 1951, an unabashed panegyric to suburbia called A Short Walk From the Station) and eight books for children...
Charles G. Stradella, 56, was elected president of General Motors Acceptance Corp., G.M.'s subsidiary for financing wholesale and retail sales ($6.7 billion in 1953). An upstate New Yorker, Stradella graduated from Yale University, studied at Fordham's law school, went to work for G.M.A.C. in 1919, climbed to vice president for overseas branch operations, later transferred to General Motors Overseas Operations Division and became head of the division's New York general staff...
CHRYSLER, whose 1954 models lag in styling, is busily pushing its lead in horsepower. To show off its new proving ground, Chrysler tooled a stock 235 h.p. New Yorker sedan around the track on a 24-hour endurance run, clicked off 2,836 miles to break its own official A.A.A. closed-track, stock-car record of 2,157 miles...