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41 unusual facts about The New York Times


1939 New York Yankees season

In its coverage the following day, The New York Times said it was "Perhaps as colorful and dramatic a pageant as ever was enacted on a baseball field as 61,808 fans thundered a hail and farewell".

Anugraha Narayan Tiwari

The New York Times, in an article, hailed the Right to Information law of India and, its implementation

Children, Incorporated

The two books, one of which was a New York Times Best Seller, are attributed as having encouraged over 4,000 individuals to sponsor a child through Children, Incorporated.

Courage of the West

A New York Times review said, "Nothing of cult director Joseph H. Lewis' much-vaunted flair is on display in this average musical Western".

Cultural District, Pittsburgh

Brendan Lemon of The New York Times wrote, “To describe Pittsburgh’s unconventional, un-Disneyfied remodeling of its Cultural District... is to explore how theater can help transform urban identity”.

Daniel Ben-Horin

From 1974-80, he made his living as a journalist, writing for The New York Times, The Nation, Harper's Weekly, Mother Jones, Redbook and many other publications.

Democratic Socialist Federation

Changing the name of the Socialist Party to "Social Democrats USA" was intended to be "realistic." The New York Times observed that the Socialist Party had last sponsored a candidate for President in 1956, who received only 2,121 votes, which were cast in only 6 states.

English-language Scrabble

English-language Scrabble is the original version of the popular word-based board game invented in 1938 by US architect Alfred Mosher Butts who based the game on the letter distribution in The New York Times in English.

Eye of the Devil

A The New York Times review referred to Tate's "chillingly beautiful but expressionless" performance.

Food critic

For example, Ruth Reichl is often described as a food writer/editor, who in the course of her career served as the "restaurant critic" for The New York Times and for the Los Angeles Times.

Forest swastika

In September 2006 The New York Times reported on another forest swastika in Eki Naryn, Kyrgyzstan, on the edge of the Tian Shan Mountains.

Glyn O'Malley

He and his work have been written about extensively by such publications as The New York Times, American Theatre, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Weekly Standard, and Cincinnati Magazine—which called him 'the most talked to and talked about playwright in 2003'.

Glynn Wolfe

The New York Times, January 30, 1984 "75, He Takes a 26th Wife. Glynn Scotty Wolfe, who is 75, married for the 26th time Saturday at a wedding chapel on the Las Vegas Strip. Wearing a black tuxedo and an ear-to-ear smile, Mr. Wolfe walked out of the chapel with his bride, 38-year-old Christine Camacho, the oldest of his brides."

In the Bazaars of Hyderabad

While reviewing the poem The New York Times wrote in April 1913 edition that; "In the Bazaars of Hyderabad" shines like an oriental gem.

Journalism ethics and standards

Despite government intervention, The Washington Post, joined by The New York Times, felt the public interest was more compelling and both published reports.

Lopatcong Township, New Jersey

Lopatcong Township was featured in a 2003 article in The New York Times which discussed problems of public school financing in suburban communities and various strategies communities have adopted to deal with the problem.

Margaret Farrar

Margaret Petherbridge Farrar (March 23, 1897 – June 11, 1984) was an American journalist and the first crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times, from 1942 to 1968.

Martensitic stainless steel

The discovery was announced two years later in a January 1915 newspaper article in The New York Times.

Max Hoffman

An article about Hoffman in 2007 by The New York Times reviews his life, and includes his photograph provided by the Hoffman Foundation.

Maxwell Perkins

After working as a reporter for The New York Times, Perkins joined the venerable publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons in 1910.

Mountain House, San Joaquin County, California

In November 2008, The New York Times reported that Mountain House was the "most underwater community in America,"—the zip code with the highest amount of negative equity on its homes.

My Name Is Modesty

Juan Morales of The New York Times called the film one of the "vivid examples of Mr. Spiegel’s sly, visual directing style".

Nathan Aleskovsky

Nathan Aleskovsky (1913 – November 11, 1969) was an employee of The New York Times in the 1950s.

Pennsylvania Turnpike/Interstate 95 Interchange Project

A 1980 article in The New York Times stated: Killing I-95 means that the entire length of the turnpike almost surely will become the official I-95 artery through the state, thus assuring it a continued source of toll revenue.

Protos of Nonnendamm

The Protos gain worldwide acclaim in 1908 when it was first to cross the finishing line in the 1908 New York to Paris Race organised by the newspapers Le Matin of Paris, and The New York Times - six competitors covered some 13 000 miles, an additional 10 000 miles being over sea.

Redeemed Christian Church of God

Andrew Rice, writing in The New York Times, calls the RCCG "one of Africa's most vigorously expansionary religious movements, a homegrown Pentecostal denomination that is crusading to become a global faith".

Robert Olby

Its publication before Crick's death in 2004 was disallowed by Crick; and it is entitled Francis Crick: Hunter of Life's Secrets, after an article in The New York Times on February 2, 1962.

RoomSync

In August 2010, The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote an article titled “Don’t Send In the Clones” where she challenged the self-selection process of roommates that is offered by RoomSync.

Salvatore Naturale

He sported a faint blond mustache and crude tattoos on his arms and thighs and lived mostly as a drifter, but a The New York Times article stated that he remained in contact with and occasionally lived with his mother.

Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry

David Lattimore wrote a review of this book for The New York Times Sunday Book Review Supplement.

Taldra, South Australia

Taldra (postcode 5311), once referred to as the "Tragedy Creek" of Australia by The New York Times, is now a rather anonymous, small town in an agriculturally rich region of Southern Australia.

The Book of Mozilla

The "beast reborn" refers to Firefox, which gained supporters who self-organized through Spread Firefox, and undertook publicity for the browser, taking out an advertisement in The New York Times and making a crop circle shaped like the Firefox logo.

The Eternal Grind

The movie was received generally negatively, with The New York Times saying, "Obliged by her Famous Players contract to star in pedestrian melodramas like The Eternal Grind, it was no wonder that Mary Pickford yearned to become her own producer".

This Angry Age

The New York Times described Clément as "a specialist in that sort of tragedy that evolves from the inability of deeply pained people to face their own feelings."

TOP Bud

The show was described to The New York Times as "a cross between “LA Ink,” the TLC show produced by Original about a lively tattoo parlor, and “Weeds,”Weeds (TV series) the Showtime hit drama about a dope-dealing mother of two.".

Turner Catledge

Finally, in the spring of 1929, Catledge began working at The New York Times, starting in the New York bureau, until later when he began work in the company's Washington, D.C. bureau as a reporter covering the U.S. House of Representatives.

University of British Columbia Graduate School of Journalism

The school also collaborated with The New York Times in 2012 to produce two web documentaries exploring development pressures and land disputes in Brazil.

Valentin Berlinsky

Berlinsky played for the Borodin Quartet for 60 years, making him the longest-serving member of what The New York Times described as being "by all accounts the longest continuously playing" string quartet in the world.

Virchand Gandhi

Strangers In This Land by E. Allen Richardson mentions this Parliament and Gandhi's subsequent interview with The New York Times.

Walter D. O'Hearn

A versatile writer and editor, he wrote book reviews for The New York Times, did analytical reporting from the United Nations and produced whimsical pieces about two denizens of Montreal's Point St. Charles – Mrs. Harrigan and Mrs. Mulcahy – discussing the vital issues of the day, which were published in the Montreal Star and later issued in book form.

Wayne Greenhaw

He wrote for and edited the Alabama Magazine in the 1980s, and wrote for The New York Times and Time.


Alan Lightman

Since that time, Lightman's essays, short fiction, and reviews have also appeared in The American Scholar, The Atlantic Monthly, Boston Review, Dædalus, Discover, Exploratorium, Granta, Harper's Magazine, Harvard Magazine, Inc Technology, Nature, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, "Salon",

Andrew Cockburn

Apart from his books he has written for National Geographic, Los Angeles Times, The London Review of Books, Smithsonian, Vanity Fair, Harper's Magazine, CounterPunch, Condé Nast Traveler, New York Times, and the Dungarvan Observer.

Boris Schapiro

They conferred with Alan Truscott, the The New York Times bridge editor, and agreed they would all observe Reese–Schapiro and record how many fingers were visible when each held his cards in each hand.

Catherine Galbraith

The book includes personal anecdotes as well as photographs, and was described by Joseph Lelyveld of The New York Times as a "graceful and accurate book" that makes the reader wish for more stories.

CollegeWeekLive

CollegeWeekLive has been featured in the media including ABC News, The Washington Post, Fox 25 News, the San Francisco Chronicle, Business Week, USA Today and The New York Times.

Eakins Press

In the three decades before his death, Eakins Press published 56 books that were described by The New York Times as being "notable for their meticulous, elegant design", including works of photography, poetry, sculpture and the New York City Ballet.

Ellen Demming

Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times deemed her performance full of "...pride, modesty, and great delicacy of feeling."

Finley Heights

He considered the heights to be islands lying in a great transverse channel across the Antarctic Peninsula and named them "Finley Islands" for John H. Finley of The New York Times, who was then president of the American Geographical Society.

Gridlock'd

The New York Times editor Janet Maslin praised Shakur's performance: "He played this part with an appealing mix of presence, confidence and humor".

Hare Krishna Food for Life

It has been lauded by The New York Times and the International Rescue Committee and Typhoon Haiyan, amongst others, for its relief efforts worldwide.

History of erotic depictions

As the first generally available gay pornographic film, the film was the first to include on-screen credits for its cast and crew (albeit largely under pseudonyms), to parody the title of a mainstream film (in this case, The Boys in the Band), and to be reviewed by The New York Times.

Honest Tea

In 2009, Honest Tea US got an unpaid endorsement when The New York Times revealed that the White House is now stocking Honest Tea, as it is President Barack Obama's preferred beverage- specifically, the "Black Forest Berry" and "Green Dragon" flavors.

Howard Roffman

The book, Heir to the Empire by noted science fiction author Timothy Zhan stayed on the The New York Times Best Seller list for nineteen weeks, paving the way for a highly successful re-launch of the franchise.

I Was Dora Suarez

Writing for The New York Times, Marilyn Stasio proclaimed: “Everything about I Was Dora Suarez … shrieks of the joy and pain of going too far.”

International Reporting Program

These student projects are featured on major news outlets including The New York Times, PBS, Al Jazeera, CBS, Global and The Globe and Mail.

Jean-Benoît Nadeau

He writes both in English and French and his articles have appeared in USA Today, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Toronto Star as well as GEO and L'Express.

Jessurun Cardozo

In 1948, The New York Times published a letter signed by Rabbi Cardozo and two dozen prominent Jewish figures including Hannah Arendt and Albert Einstein, which criticized the Herut party, described as an outgrowth of the Irgun which the letter called a "a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine" and criticized a visit to the United States by its leader, Menachem Begin.

Jillian Tamaki

She is best known for her work in The New York Times and The New Yorker and also for her award winning collaborative graphic novel Skim with Mariko Tamaki.

John Wilcockson

John Wilcockson is a British sports journalist and author who has covered professional cycling for over 40 years, reporting on major cycling events for NPR and the BBC World Service, and publishing articles in The New York Times, Outside, Men’s Journal and The Times, among others.

KEF

The New York Times has recognised KEF as: "The leading audio company in Europe", also a "Well known to American High-End audiophiles".

Keith Bunin

In his 2002 review of The Credeaux Canvas, Alvin Klein of The New York Times called Bunin "a brainy young playwright with the mighty mission of combatting mindlessness" and said his "works reveal a boundless sense of wonder".

Kyle Bobby Dunn

In early 2010, a long form album that filled a double compact disc set containing five years worth of his music, A Young Person's Guide to Kyle Bobby Dunn, arrived on the UK based label Low Point, and was praised in various music journalism and considered a 'deeply affecting' work by The New York Times and 'his most definitive statement so far,' by Pitchforkmedia.

Larry Coon

The New York Times writes that Coon is cited more frequently than basketball inventor James Naismith.

Lawrence Edwards

Advocated for the New York City region as well as a Boston to Washington line by the Regional Plan Association, — the invention was praised by Secretary of Transportation John Volpe as well as editorials in The New York Times and professional and scientific journals.

Lawrence Fried

Lawrence Fried (b.June 28, 1926 – d.1983), was an American photo-journalists, whose work appeared in Newsweek, The Saturday Evening Post, The New York Times, Vogue, Collier's, and Parade Magazine.

Levels of the Game

Robert Lipsyte of The New York Times, in his review of the book, wrote that it "may be the high point of American sports journalism".

Molly Haskell

Haskell has written for many publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian, Esquire, The Nation, Town and Country Magazine, The New York Observer and The New York Review of Books.

Morris Schwartz

He started in the New York Times in 1922, staying with the paper until 1926, when he moved to the Jewish Daily Forward, where he was a staff photographer until 1931.

Names of Burma

In spite of the usage by the US government, American news outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune and CNN, and US-based international news agencies the Associated Press and Reuters have adopted the name "Myanmar".

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Janet Maslin of The New York Times gave the film a mediocre review explaining that the "third look at the quintessentially middle-American Griswold family, led by Clark and the very patient Ellen is only a weary shadow of the original National Lampoon's Vacation."

Parmy Olson

Janet Maslin of The New York Times called We Are Anonymous a "lively, startling book".

Peruvian Connection

The business grew slowly but steadily until a style writer from The New York Times did an interview with Annie for what would turn out to be a quarter-page article in the paper's Style section.

Richard Krawiec

This novel was featured in Publishers Weekly 'Recommended List', the Village Voice 'Real Life Rock Top Ten column, and received attention from Jonathan Yardley in The Washington Post, Richard Eder in the Los Angeles Times, and in the 'In Short' column of the 'N.Y. Sunday Times', although it got a mixed review from Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times.

Rumi Shishido

Neil Strauss of The New York Times compared her "ripe, melodic voice" from her first indies album, Set Me Free, to Debbie Gibson and Liz Phair.

Secessionism in Western Australia

Western Australia was grouped with Scotland, Wales, the Basque Country, and Catalonia as "places seeking maximum fiscal and policy autonomy from their national capitals" in an October 2013 opinion piece in The New York Times.

State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration

State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration is documentary review written by Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist for The New York Times James Risen.

StudentLoanJustice.org

StudentLoanJustice.org or its members have been covered by a number of newspapers, radio, and television shows, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio, The Washington Post, The National Review, The Wall Street Journal, Public Broadcasting System, Fortune Magazine, Businessweek, Fox Television, CNN, CBS News, Democracy Now!, The Chicago Sun-Times, and others.

The Comfort of Strangers

In The New York Times, the critic John Leonard wrote "No reader will begin The Comfort of Strangers and fail to finish it; a black magician is at work."

The Rebelution

Alex and Brett Harris have been featured nationally on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and in The New York Times.

Tim Carvell

Tim Carvell is an American writer known for this work for the TV comedy series The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and for his print work in publications such as Mad and The New York Times.

Trio for Blunt Instruments

John Canaday, The New York Times (May 28, 1964) — Rex Stout, who gives his birth date as Dec. 1, 1886, is either the victim of false records or the beneficiary of a biological aberration, eternal youth.

Valerie Wilson Wesley

Her writings, both fiction and non-fiction, have also appeared in numerous publications, including Essence, Family Circle, TV Guide, Ms., The New York Times, and the Swiss weekly magazine Die Weltwoche.

Walhonding Canal

An article in The New York Times reported that as of September 3, 1893, the railroad had been occupying the state's canal property for more than a year and it had been six months without an action on the part of Attorney General Richards or the Republican-controlled Board of Public Works.

War and Decision

He also deplored the failure of major newspapers to mention the book, reporting that "the excellent James Risen" has written an article about it that the New York Times has never published.