Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides making 487 fillings and 85 extractions, the Committee also looked out for the educational welfare of its victims: a curt paragraph says: "The 'New Yorker,' 'Time,' and 'Lampoon' are supplied by the Committee." It's the first time the "Lampoon," undergraduate humorous publication, has been placed in such a class...
...will be handled. One hundred and twenty planes a day roar off Newark's runways compared with less than 100 out of Berlin, London or Paris. But Newark is 14 miles and 40 minutes from the centre of Manhattan, suffers the resentful opposition of every loyal flying New Yorker...
Humor, like poetry, has never been successfully defined. But that U. S. humor, at least, has something crazy in it has been proved every week for years by the famed New Yorker. Two of that smartchart's mainstays have been James Thurber and Wolcott Gibbs. Without buying up back files readers last week could get a slice of Gibbs and Thurber humor in concentrated form...
Like The New Yorker's talented one-time lead-off man, E. B. White (TIME, Aug. 16), James Thurber is no longer a member of the staff, is wandering quietly through Europe. Master of the familiar, walk-do-not-run-to-the-exit style, Funnyman Thurber writes with a sad, lucid patience perfectly matched by his underdone drawings. For bringing earnest balloons to earth or dissolving reason in a clap of blankness, James Thurber has few contemporary equals. Nervous himself, he evidently has lost patience with the recent deluge of small volumes popularizing psychiatry. The series...
...much more standardized humorist. Wolcott Gibbs is so self-depreciating that when he was managing editor of The New Yorker he kept his own copy out of the issue on every opportunity. For once an author's apologetic foreword ("How I ever came to write and collect the pieces in this book must remain an impressive mystery. Why the publisher is printing them is something he will have to explain to his God") is to be believed. Best pieces in his book, Bed of Neuroses, are the parodies. Best parodies: "Time . . . Fortune . . . Life . . . Luce," "Death in the Rumble Seat...