Word: yorkerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Schulman was transferred from TIME'S Chicago bureau last November to become chief of the bureau in Seattle, he recalled an incident that happened during a school vacation 20 years ago at the Chicago World's Fair. Says Schulman : "At the time, I was a native New Yorker who had never been west of Jersey before. I remember standing wistfully in the Chicago railroad yards watching the trains pull out for the West. I thought how wonderful it would be to go into those mighty spaces that I knew only from maps...
Author De Vries, a writer for The New Yorker, has an acute sense of the absurd and an absurd way of being acute. He has written an amusing, screwball farce. Its moral: vice, in its mysterious ways, may lead a man to virtue- and virtue may lead him to the brink of calamity...
...Bulletin of 1939 was hidden under a drab, cream-colored cover that usually announced equally drab scientific reports, and distinguished as it may have been, it was drastically losing subscribers. In competition with attractively packaged and styled publications like Time and The New Yorker, the magazine obviously needed a complete brightening, both visually and journalistically; but its staff, accustomed to 20 years of traditionalism, tended to resist any change...
...became editor when McCord resigned in 1946 and held the post until last winter, brought the magazine more certainly than over into competition with leading commercial publications. His aim, he says, was to make the bulletin combine the news efficiency of Time with the literary flavor of The New Yorker, and his efforts toward that end were officially recognized in 1948 by the Sibley award committee...
...only singing chore. And her acting, when not rushed, was very competent. For a chorus of "All About Love," Ellen McHugh showed perhaps the most talent for comedy in the cast, closely followed by Shiela Flaherty's board rendition of "When the Postman Rings the Bell With New Yorker...