Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which were exposed the backs of old letterheads and odd sheets of scratch paper on which were scrawled the amiable bloodhounds, the horrid boneless women, the bald, browbeaten little men of Artist Thurber, associate editor and one of the two most successful members" of the staff of The New Yorker...
Tribune. Later he returned to New York, got himself a job on the old Evening Post. From that journalistic wreck he was rescued by bristle-haired, buck-toothed Editor Harold Ross of The New Yorker, who spent many months trying to make Thurber into a managing editor...
...member of the neurotic crew that staffs the brightest weekly in the U. S. For two years no one but his friend and fellow editor, Elwyn Brooks ("Andy") White, could see anv merit in the thousands of drawings with which Thurber covered all the loose stationery in The New Yorker office. Artist Thurber may not be a second Picasso but he is indubitably one of the most prolific telephone booth moral ists in the world...
Things trouble him. In protest against his boss's fondness for locking doors and tearing down office partitions, he distrib uted among his friends a secret supply of pass keys to The New Yorker offices. Once he held a noise-making contest with carpenters and plasterers by rolling metal trash baskets up & down corridors. Stenographers still remember the day when James Thurber powdered his face white, upset the telephone booth, climbed into it, pretended he was a corpse in a coffin...
...Authors present respectable credentials. Frank Schoonmaker has roamed the vineyards of Europe many years, "collecting information and pleasant experiences," for the past year has been wine correspondent for the New Yorker. Tom Marvel, Connecticut vineyard-owner, is now on the Paris staff of the New York Herald, has served on French wine juries, written home about wine...