Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rule of trade at RCA Victor and Columbia that the U.S. record-buying public wants more full-length grand opera. Three years ago, a 36-year-old New Yorker named Dario Soria bet a small bankroll on the same proposition-and is now the No. 1 impresario of recorded opera...
...psychological difficulties that beset the characters in E. B. White's New Yorker fantasy seemed less remote than ever last week. In Space Medicine (University of Illinois; $3), a half-dozen assorted Army and Air Force scientists published their theories on what they consider the principal unsolved problem of manned rocket flight: the limits of human endurance...
Harold Ross, editor of The New Yorker, knows about peptic ulcers; he has had several himself...
...quick footwork of a basketball player (which he is), and an ambition to become the world's best player. Trabert owes much of his fine game, and his determination to make it the finest, to his friend and doubles partner Bill Talbert, a New Yorker who hails from Cincinnati himself. Says Trabert: "He's like a brother . . . My tour of Europe with Bill in 1950 did much to raise my game. I learned so much that I couldn't absorb it all. Now it is sinking home and I'm putting it into practice...
Irving H. Saypol, a stocky New Yorker with a firm chin, is now the nation's No. 1 legal hunter of top Communists. He helped Tom Murphy prosecute Alger Hiss, collaborated in the trial of the top eleven Communists and-after becoming U.S. Attorney in New York last year-convicted William Remington and Atom. Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Last week Prosecutor Saypol was busy as a sheepdog. He was trying to keep a handful of second-string Communists within the law's purview, to make sure that they are still on hand when it comes time...