Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only when the General rose at the Hotel New Yorker to speak in Chinese to a great Chinese Charitable & Benevolent Association banquet, did Tsai reveal the drive, the mighty earnestness and kindling magnetism of the Hero of Shanghai. No representative of China's Government was present. Also pointedly absent was little General Chang Fat-hwai of the Government's "Ironsides Division." who arrived in Manhattan fortnight ago to study U. S. military methods, and may be made War Minister when he returns to Nanking. Shanghai was supposed to be Hero Tsai's theme, but the Chinese Government knew that...
...this large flat tome. "After clue deliberation and many consultations with our publisher," say Collaborators Soglow and Plotkin. ''we have arrived at the conclusion that the Depression must go." The result is an original opus instead of a collection of Artist Soglow's previously published pictures from the New Yorker and the New Classes. The Little King appears only once. Other persons and places are new, if vaguely familiar...
Author John O'Hara, 29, is a rolling stone who has travelled from his hometown Pottsville, Pa. Journal to the Paramount studios in Hollywood. He has contributed stories to The New Yorker, Scrib- ner's, Vanity Fair. "In addition," he says, "I have jerked soda, worked on two railroads and in a steel mill, on an ocean liner and a farm . . . bummed east and west, was a day laborer. I was married once. ..." Appointment in Samarra is his first novel. A volume of his short stories, The Doctor's Son, will be published this autumn...
...Harold Ross still is The New Yorker. His judgment of values, of importance, timeliness, effectiveness, is exceptional to the point of brilliance. For all his strange record with fellow human beings, those who are nearest to him have great loyalty to him. . . . Without him the magazine might easily disintegrate even today...
...city turned off the water from her urn. Her porous limestone base had sucked up moisture like blotting paper, had cracked and chipped with each winter's freeze. So dirty and neglected were her face and body that Versifier Arthur Guiterman complained about it in The New Yorker. In an answering rhyme Ralph Pulitzer promised action...