Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there are many that need more than savoir to bring them up to former standards. Nonsense as such won't quite pass unless its really pretty funny and somehow I did not feel that this was really pretty funny. Perhaps I haven't got that gay, carefree, New Yorker attitude of which Happy Bob has so long been the standard bearer, or perhaps Comforting Thoughts on the Bison don't apply to me, at any rate there were large portions of the book over which I was seen to nod just a touch...
...knows about Stanley Walker. In six years as city editor of the New York Herald Tribune youthful Stanley Walker has be come something of a legend. He has escaped the anonymity of desk work often enough to produce articles for Harper's, American Mercury, Forum and The New Yorker, a best-selling book (The Night Club Era ) and to pose for a full-page testimonial for Gruen watches in the Satevepost. He is reputed one of the ablest news executives in the land, although he will be only 36 this week. Last week he established himself as a prophet...
...another, a 15-year-old New Yorker paid $50 for the privilege of broadcasting. The microphone carried her voice only to the next room...
Cartoonist Fred Opper never publicly appeared in the Quixotic guise of Happy Hooligan. But last week Cartoonist Otto Soglow, elaborately garbed in the beard, crown and ermine of his Little King, made a coast-to-coast goodwill tour on a TWAirliner to celebrate the debut of his famed New Yorker comic strip in Puck, the 16-page funnypaper published weekly in Hearst-papers throughout...
Year ago Artist Soglow sold Publisher Hearst a comic strip called The Ambassador. Last week The Ambassador was recalled to make way for the Little King, who at the same time abdicated from the New Yorker, his contract having expired. In his debut as a Hearstling the Little King romped gaily in color through a page of ten drawings, in which he was depicted as entertaining his assembled subjects with an impromptu performance on a tight rope...