Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gertrude Stein's new heroine (Mrs. Reynolds), who will not appear in the bookstores until after the war, was described by her creator as "very well-born." In New Yorker quotations from the manuscript, smuggled out of France by a Stein friend in "the front of her dress," Author Stein explained her heroine's good birth: "She was born on Tuesday and the next day was Wednesday and she was a day old on Wednesday." The novel ("more about Tuesdays than about roses") includes characters Hitler, Stalin, and Angel Harper. "When a little dog sticks himself...
There is a little item in a recent issue of the "New Yorker," easily overlooked, but significant just the same. Seems that a friend of the publication had occasion to visit Boston to see his favorite physician about a case of ulcers. Well, our subject, arriving at South Station, forthwith boarded a cab and was whisked to the Copley. What happened to him in the taxicab need not concern us here. To the ear of the trained Bostonian, however, the combination of "South Station" and "Copley" lacks a certain logical connection...
...Ross, you ought to be ashamed. The Copley is just across the street from the Back Bay Station. When does a friend of the "New Yorker" get, off at South Station anyhow? All that indefinable air of well-being, good cigars and whiskey, that subtle compound of Brooks Bros., Yardley and Sulka disappear in a puff of smoke. The ruddy executive becomes a pathetic, puzzled little fellow in a battered fedora, clutching a suitcase in his arms and sweating profusely. He's probably run down at the heel, too. Hell, Harold, you might as well give him a dime...
...Yorker, furthermore, has never been particularly impressed with the Digest's capsule theory of life and its assumption that any piece of writing can be improved by extracting every seventh word, like a tooth. We have occasionally been embarrassed to see our stuff after it has undergone alterations. . . . Mostly, however, we object to the Digest's indirect creative function, which is a threat to the free flow of ideas and to the independent spirit...
...Yorker's departure from his fold was not a new experience for Editor Wallace. The Curtis Publishing Co. (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman) had once dropped out, then returned. So had others. A decade ago Editor Wallace began to supplement the Digest's reprint diet with a staff of original Digest authors which is now formidable. Noticeable in recent years: fewer Digest reprints from long-favored sources, more from lesser-known, smaller publications, and more original articles...