Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Traffic Jam. Last week they had plenty of both to talk about. The major cartoon-buying magazines (Satevepost, Collier's, True, This Week, etc.) were using twice as many gag panels as in 1941, and paying more for them. (Prices were up, too, in the New Yorker's exclusive stable.) But competition was getting tougher, even for the 50 artists who make 70% of the sales to the majors...
...small, twinkly Harry Freeman, a 40-year-old native New Yorker who has broken in a brace of imported bosses since joining Tass in 1929 He speaks little Russian, cables his stories in English. Tass sends 7,000 to 8,000 words a day about the U.S. to Moscow; its report is light on crime, scandal and feature news, heavy on production figures, U.S. culture, high-level politics, anything critical of the Kremlin...
...Translating theory into action, A.V.C. members picketed a tavern which refused to serve two Negro veterans, had the proprietor arrested for violation of the Iowa state civil-rights law on charges backed by onetime Willkie-man Oren Root Jr. Next day, the New Yorker's E. J. Kahn Jr. drafted a full-page ad complimenting the city of Des Moines on prompt police action...
...Connecticut Citizens Political Action Committee. Born at a gala January party, the 500-member C.C.P.A.C. chose as its chairman lean, bespectacled Dr. Liston Pope, associate professor of social ethics at Yale. For balance, Torchsinger Libby Holman was named vice chairman, and Mrs. Howard Brubaker, wife of a New Yorker paragrapher, executive secretary...
Married. St. Clair McKelway, 41, New Yorker editor turned Hollywood scenarist; and Martha Stephenson Kemp Mature, 27, widow of Bandleader Hal Kemp, ex-wife of Cinemactor Victor Mature; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in Beverly Hills, Calif...