“Keejah,”“Transfers,” And Other Recent Works
(A Cluster Of All-Purpose Book Reviews For Those Who Miss, As Everybody Does, Their Sunday "Times") The writer composes a series of satirical book reviews for those who miss their Sunday "Times" during...
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Incidental Intelligence: The Brown Shutters, a guest house in Bass River, on Cape God, has painted all its shutters gray.See the rest of the story at newyorker.com
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On an icy afternoon last week a small boy in a snowsuit stepped into the vestibule of an apartment house in the East Seventies. He struggled out of his mittens & unzipped his jacket. Then he took a...
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In a speech made at the 77th annual convention of the Amer Newspaper Publishers Association, of which Irwin Maier is president, he let a cat out of a bag in connection with the Washington furor over...
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Incidental Intelligence: (Full Circle Division): At the Salt River Indian Reservation, near Scottsdale, Arizona, a group of thirty Indians of the Pima tribe are busily engaged, under the direction of...
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In an ancient volume of Browning's poems at the Donnell Library Center, on W. 53 St., one of our correspondents came upon a memorandum that was, in full, as follows: Long-Range Goals: 1. Health-more...
View ArticleThey Could Have Danced All Night, And Did
(A Handy, All-Purpose Column On The Dance For Amateurs Of That Art Who Find It Unfeasible To Lift Their Sunday "Times" Or "Herald Tribune" From Vestibule To Living Room) The writer parodies reviews of...
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Springtime love scene overheard on a busy side street in Manhattan. Policeman: "That was jaywalking... I'll have to give you a ticket... Let me see your identification." Young Lady: "Why, I do that all...
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Chalked inscription found on a bright June morning on a Central Park pavement near the Reservoir: The little wee flower With the soft new dew, Shows what I most dower, Which is my love for you.See the...
View ArticleHow To Be Happy When Your Newsdealer Filches Your Sunday “Times Magazine”
The writer parodies the New York Sunday "Times Magazine" section in a series of all-purpose articles on: de Gaulle's successor, M.M. Pompflimnereaux; "Sister Teams" in Washington, D.C.; Greenland, a...
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Overheard in a Schrafft's far up north on Madison Avenue, one hostess to another: "If that Kathleen stays out one more Saturday, I'll break her to Twenty-third Street."See the rest of the story at...
View ArticleChild Labor & the Presbyterians
The writer's father, a Presbyterian clergyman, quit preaching to devote his life to pushing anto-child-labor legislation, in Washington, D.C. Paradoxically, the writer's own labors as a child were...
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A young mother took her turn as chauffeur for six children, aged 8 to 9, whose parents belong to a school car pool. She asked her passengers what lunches they preferred. "Hamburgers", said five of...
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Nanny with an American accent to a child she was accompanying across Madison Avenue at 79th Street: "Children are still children even when they grow up, so you'll be a child when you grow up."See the...
View ArticleUp On The Flying Trapeze; Show and Slush; Is Hopkins Outmoded? $215,600 For A...
(A Handy All-Purpose Art Column) Parody of an art column. There is an account of a retrospective show, discussion of prices paid for art, and a critique of the Gallery of Hyper-modern Art. This last...
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The Nuttie Goodie Tea Room, in Springfield, Massachusetts, serves a club sandwich called the Mercy Hospital Special.See the rest of the story at newyorker.com
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Simple declarative sentence on a sign in the employees' cafeteria of the Community Hospital, at Glen Cove: "Florence Nightingale wouldn't have thrown cigarette butts on the floor of the corridor or in...
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A restaurant in Little Rock has simplified its life by changing its name from the Shangri-La Southern Style Smorgasbord to the Shangri-La Cafeteria.See the rest of the story at newyorker.com
View ArticleMr. Whitweeks' Massive Tone; Whistlers Rampant in Robinson Opera; Other Notes
Review of three concerts. The first was a piano recital. by Mr. Richard Whitweeks of London, England. The second was a presentation of Herbert G. Robinson's new, regional historic opera, "O...
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The writer is telephoned by U.S. President Sarah Perkins, called Mom, early one January morning to tell him to come to the White House from NYC, where he is Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas and...
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