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...artist much favored by Buffalo Bill was New Yorker Charles Schreyvogel, who reached manhood in the 1880s only to find that the West had already been won. Undaunted, he set out to become the chronicler of the cavalryman in action, and Cody obligingly let him use the cowboys and Indians in his Wild West show as models. The results may have been at times secondhand-and his dust-raising dramas clearly anticipate the modern Western-but such paintings as The Summit Springs Rescue, glorifying Cody's role in a much disputed battle, so impressed another Wild West fancier, Theodore...
...favorite butt of early TIME baiters was the distinctive and mannered style in which the magazine was written during its formative years. In a famous 1936 New Yorker parody, the late Wolcott Gibbs caricatured that style in the classic line: "Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind." Our sentences no longer run backward (or hardly ever), but the spoofs continue. More recently, The New Yorker commented on our occasional tendency to use active, colorful verbs, and claimed that people in our pages always "groan, coo, snarl, taunt, thunder, chortle, crack, intone, growl, drawl," etc. The same article suggested that...
Though he has now moved from the White House to a Wesleyan University fellowship, Goodwin still hankers to shape national policy. His reflections on Viet Nam, expanded from a recent New Yorker magazine article, are a kind of memo to L.B.J. A flashy but not always illuminating exercise, it ends up sounding improbably like a cool hawk trying to placate hot doves...
...sincerity howled that Klein's joint nomination could be nothing but a deal between spoils-hungry bosses of both parties. The situation was machine-made for Senator Robert F. Kennedy's benefit. When he became the state's junior Senator in 1964, the new New Yorker was clearly on the way to becoming its No. 1 Democrat as well. But there was still a pocket of hostility within Tammany Hall, and some coolness between Bobby and the other two important factions, the satellite Liberal Party and the liberal-leaning reform Democrats...
Marching into the business office of the small (9,145 telephones) Harrisonville Telephone Co. in the farming community of Waterloo, ILL., recently, a visiting New Yorker demanded to see the president. A complaint, perhaps? Not at all. The visitor had just used one of the three sleek air-conditioned telephone booths outside the building; he merely wanted to pump President Henry W. Gentsch's hand and tell him that the big Bell System could not do better than that back home in New York...