Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lawrence's "The Sun," it came to my attention on Saturday, and I expected to make public in this letter written on Sunday, that in the same issue the story called "Mary Jane and Jerry" contained verbatim extracts from Nancy Hale's "Midsummer," published in the New Yorker. This letter cannot begin to reveal our displeasure and embarrassment at such unethical practices...
...only deep difference between Ross and Shawn, says one writer, "is that Shawn is about 100 decibels quieter." Shawn has the same passion as Ross for facts and accuracy, and is so precise that even a craftsman like S. N. Behrman says: "I like to do a New Yorker piece once a year just to get the benefit of Shawn's editing...
...Yorker himself, Shawn was born on Chicago's South Side, the son of a cutlery dealer. After two years at the University of Michigan and three months as reporter on the Las Vegas (N. Mex.) Optic (present circ. 4,613), Shawn got-married, settled in Chicago and freelanced. But in New Mexico he had seen The New Yorker and had become "infatuated with it." He went to New York in 1932, planning to write a book about the magazine. Instead, he landed a job as a reporter for "Talk of the Town...
Shawn plans no changes in The New Yorker formula. Circulation is at a peak 343,580, and net profits, which were $630,000 in 1950, are estimated to be down only slightly for 1951 because of higher taxes and costs...
...quotations on the left are excerpts from "Mary Jane and Jerry," a story by William Morrison '52 in the December issue of "The Harvard Advocate." Those on the right are from "Mid-Summer," a story by Nancy Hale in "Short Stories from the New Yorker," copyright 1940 by the F-R Publishing Company...