Word: yorkers
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...laziness. Within a year, his short story Expelled appeared in the New Republic. He spent some time in Boston with his older brother Fred, then took a cheap room in Manhattan and pounded out short stories to pay the rent. At 22, he sold a piece to The New Yorker, and he and the magazine grew up together...
...Bonnie, Herrin had no close friends at Yale. His academic record was dismal. Yet former classmates, faculty members and, particularly, the university's Roman Catholic community rallied immediately to his side with a $30,000 defense fund and all the influence they could bring to bear. New Yorker Jack : Litman, a stellar attorney, was hired to ' provide a defense. His case ultimately de| pended on Psychiatrist John Train, another brilliant performer on the criminal circuit, who argued that Herrin was suffering from both severe mental disease that impaired his ability to realize what le was doing. (Herrin testified...
Radcliffe's lot a chapter, established in 1914, selected 51 members of the Class of 1982 as new inductees and tapped for honorary memberships. Pauline Kael, film critic for New Yorker Magazine, Aida Press '48 the editor of Radcliffe Quarterly. Eileen Southern, professor of Afro-American Studies and of Music, and Dtana Trilling, author of Mrs. Harris...
Readers who follow both The New Yorker and baseball have grown accustomed to the routine of Author Roger Angell. Each spring, usually in April, he appears in print with his impressions of the Florida and Arizona training camps, early warmups for the major league season ahead. Midsummers often bring his reflections from far off the beaten base paths: he has spent some time with a former star or picked up on the fortunes of an obscure semipro pitcher. After the World Series, he recaps the autumn games and the various heroics leading up to them. Now another pattern is emerging...
Exactly that sweeping solution-and a worldwide government of unspecified political complexion to carry it out-is the immodest proposal of the antinuclear movement's rallying point, Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth. The book first appeared as three articles in The New Yorker and met wide acclaim among opinion leaders. Walter Cronkite said it "may be one of the most important works of recent years." Washington Post Columnist Mary McGrory said that the book was "working its way into the national psyche." Even journalists who disagreed with Schell's call for disarmament, like Columnist...