Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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JANET FLANNER The New Yorker New York City...
...Yorker cartoon (by Robert Day-see cut) showed a songwriter dreaming up: Stop the Wop, Rip into Nippon, The Hun is done...
...Auden's The Double Man ($2), a brilliant attempt to outwit the age's prevailing schizophrenia, and to focus at least a statement of the problem of evil and of the possibility of hope. All this it managed in verses as clear and casual as The New Yorker's, though wittier. Louis MacNeice published his collected poems ($2.50). The one durable translation was Robert Fitzgerald's Oedipus at Colonus ($1.50), which made clear that Sophocles was not, as other translations suggest, an unsuccessful Victorian imitator of Shakespeare. Richard Aldington's The Viking Book of Poetry...
...Partner Richard Leo Simon's brother Henry is musicritic for the New York newspaper PM: his cousin Robert A., for The New Yorker...
With the New Yorker already entrenched as the contemporary theatre's most prolific source of material for successful comedy, behold "Junior Miss," starring Sally Benson's Graves family, and most particularly their thirteen-year-old Judy. Uncle Max Gordon has picked another winner this time, for here is the most continually rollicking play of the Boston season--"laff-riot" being the term which springs to mind...