1963 08 17 022 TNY CARDS 000277233
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 …
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. …
View ArticleEpicure
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 …
View Article1964 02 01 025 TNY CARDS 000274673
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…
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…
View Article1964 04 11 033 TNY CARDS 000275862
The Nuttie Goodie Tea Room, in Springfield, Massachusetts, serves a club sandwich called the Mercy Hospital Special.
View Article1964 07 18 023 TNY CARDS 000277847
Simple declarative sentence on a sign in the employees' cafeteria of the Community Hospital, at Glen Cove: "Florence Nightingale wouldn't have …
View Article1964 11 21 049 TNY CARDS 000279522
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.
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. …
View ArticleClose to Mom
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 …
View ArticleThis World We Live In
Author reminisces about the years 1924-'25 when he was a newspaper reporter. In '24, he spent his homeymoon with his first, wife, Lois Little, …
View ArticlePrinceton Pond
The writer, who lives alone on the top floor of the Hotel Mansfield, on West 44th St., has been observing a puddle on the roof of the Princeton Club on W. …
View ArticleComment
Springtime in this city-and elsewhere-we imagine, marks the resurgence of empathy among men... We are thinking at the moment of a bus driver on upper …
View Article1967 05 13 039 TNY CARDS 000286920
West Indian Intelligence: The cafeteria at the Minivielle & Chastanet Department Store, in Castries, St. Lucia, is closed for lunch every day between …
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Anything that can put new life into a man - cause him to go around afterward with his shoulders thrown back and his head so lifted that it feels as if it …
View ArticleThe Big Little Man from Brooklyn
St. Clair McKelway profiles the dedicated imposter Stanley Clifford Weyman.
View ArticleTHE BIG LITTLE MAN FROM BROOKLYN
ANNALS OF IMPOSTURE about Stephen Jacob Weinberg, alias Stanley Clifford Weyman a famous impostor.
View ArticleThe Presbyterian Captives
When the author was young, Sunday afternoons were usually spent indoors with his large, staunchly Presbyterian family. One of his relatives would read …
View ArticleMR. FIRST-NIGHTER
BEHIND THE SCENES excerpt from a PROFILE which ran June 15-July 20, 1940.
View ArticleTHE BLOWING OF THE TOP OF PETER ROGER OBOE
THAT WAS A REPORTER AT WIT'S END about events that led up to the writer's accusing Admiral Nimitz of high treason in World War II.
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