Word: yorkers
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White was most famous for his popular children's book "Charlotte's Web," as well as for his witty essays in The New Yorker magazine. In 1959, he revised the grammar usage reference text, "The Elements of Style," originally written by his college mentor William Strunk Jr. and now commonly referred to as "Strunk and White...
White began his half-century affiliation with The New Yorker in 1925, contributing sketches, poems, and humorous essays like the "Go Climb a Tree Department." In 1929 he married Katharine Sergeant Angell, The New Yorker's first fiction editor...
That should wipe a smirk off anyone's face. Even a New Yorker...
...notes, "when you stick with the stuff you bought in the first place." As it happened, NBC's quality shows, however low-rated, were attracting what advertisers call a quality audience. Mad. Ave. ad mavens were discovering that a rule long applied to magazines--that 1,000 New Yorker readers are more valuable than 1,000 National Enquirer readers--made sense in prime time as well. Says Tartikoff: "When you pull a tab on the St. Elsewhere audience, you find that many of them don't watch any other entertainment show on network TV. They're well-educated, well-paid...
...Director Bill Casey, in pinstriped elegance and ensconced in his splendid home off Washington's Foxhall Road, the very picture of a transplanted New Yorker, softly describes a world that is still dangerous and still unpredictable. But something has happened in the past few years that has heartened him. Revolutionaries for freedom are now getting more recruits than the totalitarians. Casey has had something to do with that, and he relishes the thought...