Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there are no rich Radcliffe alumnae, corresponding to these who assist Harvard periodicals, who are willing to give money to a magazine, rather than directly to the college. Another trouble is that no Radcliffe magazine has built up enough prestige to attract the undergraduate manuscripts offered to the New Yorker and other professional periodicals...
...York or 'New Yorker'?" Howell asked somewhat wryly. "In New York there is no immediate pressure, but the reservoirs will be below normal demand for another four years...
...only one production, but September 1950 will have five: James Bridie's long-run London hit Daphne Laureola, Louis Verneuil's Affairs of State with Celeste Holm, Owen Crump's Southern Exposure, Lesley Storm's Black Chiffon, another London import, and Drama Critic (The New Yorker) Wolcott Gibbs's Season...
...year-old Dave Garroway, an amateur mechanic, gem cutter, tile-setter, photographer, bird fancier, cabinetmaker and bibliophile, says his scriptless show is planned by "four guys sitting around a table." The other three, all under 35, are Writer Charlie Andrews, an ex-hobo; Producer Ted Mills, an expatriate New Yorker; and Director Bill Hobin, an ex-drummer. The Garroway show's top council, with Burr Tillstrom (Kukla, Fran & Ollie) and Documentary Expert Ben Park, make up the brain trust of the close-knit, argumentative group that has developed the Chicago school. Explains NBC's Chicago Station Manager Jules...
Hemingway was the champ all right. He was past 50, but still the champ, and he was ready to take on all comers. He had said so himself, to a New Yorker writer, only a few months before: "It is sort of fun to be 50 and feel you are going to defend the title again. I won it in the twenties [A Farewell to Arms] and defended it in the thirties (To Have and Have Not] and the forties [For Whom the Bell Tolls], and I don't mind at all defending it in the fifties...