Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yorkers are disaster-prone, and they rather relish it. Muggings, burglaries, strikes and technological failures of all kinds form part of the daily news fare. A New Yorker would count the day lost if he could not regale an out-of-towner, or a friend, or himself, with some vivid tale of megalopolitan woe. The past master of this urban gallows humor is Neil Simon, and in The Prisoner of Second Avenue he has written his finest play since The Odd Couple...
...Gifford '60, a former aide to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54, also appeared before the grand jury. Gifford answered questions concerning his name, occupation and place of residence, but refused to answer when asked if he knew Susan Sheehan, who writes for the New Yorker: her husband. Neil Sheehan, a reporter for the New York Times who wrote articles for that paper about the Pentagon Papers: and Daniel Ellsberg '52, who has admitted giving the Pentagon study to the press...
Corry's city-block series has been well received, and he hopes to see it run for a year, with future pieces concentrating on individuals. Meanwhile, Corry is contemplating articles on two of the most pressing issues facing the residents of West 85th Street and every other New Yorker for that matter: double-parked cars and uncurbed dogs...
...with Playwright John Osborne (Look Back in Anger). After five years of volatile marriage, she and Osborne called it finis. She got custody of their only child, Nolan Kate. For a brief time she had a rather deep friendship with Critic-Impresario Kenneth Tynan (Oh! Calcutta!). The New Yorker, enchanted with her work, brought her Stateside to write their film critiques from April...
...styling changes this year as well. The fate of the new models in the showrooms will thus provide a rare test of Sloan's Law. Chrysler Corp. is promoting style changes in such full-sized models as the Plymouth Fury, Dodge Polara and Monaco, and Chrysler Newport, New Yorker and Imperial. Newly sculpted body and roof lines, and new front and rear styling will be the big difference. Says Elwood P. Engel, Chrysler's vice president of styling: "Buying a car is like buying a suit. Nobody wants one with narrow lapels. People who buy Valiants and Darts...