Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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People who live in times of rapidly rising prices shouldn't throw stones. New Yorker Patrick McCarthy, 58, knows that when he is sober. But when he has a tipple or two, he tends to have an urge to toss a rock through a window and then waits patiently to be arrested. In 26 years he has broken at least 44 panes and, as a result, has spent about ten years in jail on misdemeanor charges. Neither psychiatrists nor specialists at a federal alcoholism center have been able to help...
...including the Plymouth Sapporo and Arrow models, the sales backlog exceeds 150 days. For lack of models, the company has been virtually shut out of the full-size car market, which now constitutes 29% of industry sales. And when the company introduced its new full-size 1979 Chrysler New Yorker and Dodge St. Regis models with a vigorous publicity blitz in early October, it had almost no cars to sell because of production problems. Chrysler's only real winners this year are its front-wheel-drive Omni and Horizon...
Today, a New Yorker looking for fulltime, live-in help must compete with as many as 70 other applicants for the same worker. Live-in housekeepers on Long Island frequently get a color TV in their private quarters, use of a car and country club privileges in addition to their pay. In many urban areas, homeowners resort to maid sharing, maid stealing and other unorthodox means of getting help. A Fort Lauderdale couple succeeded in finding a housekeeper only after the husband, an attorney, received a client's domestic as part of a bonus for handling his divorce case...
...introduction to his collected stories John Cheever recalls a crusty, idiosyncratic editor at The New Yorker. But, adds the author, "since the men he encouraged ranged as widely as Irwin Shaw and Vladimir Nabokov, he seems to have done more good than anything else." Cheever may be the only person in the world who would mention these writers in the same sentence. There are many who would not mention Shaw at all. Alfred Kazin's massive study of American fiction, On Native Grounds, has no room for the author. Edmund Wilson's definitive survey, Classics and Commercials, gives...
...craftsmanship and the tone are suggestive of Andrew Wyeth, but the new painting of Lady Bird Johnson is in fact by New Yorker Aaron Shikler, best known for the official White House portraits of President John F. Kennedy and his widow Jacqueline Onassis. Commissioned by Jane Engelhard, widow of Industrialist Charles Engelhard, the Lady Bird canvas was painted in Texas last spring when the bluebonnets were in bloom, and will be on permanent display at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library in Austin. Said Lady Bird last week: "I'm crazy about it. I feel very much in tune with...