The Shenandoah Valley News, of Waynesboro-Basic, Va., published an editorial headed The New Yorker, under which appeared these pronouncements :
The most provincial-minded person in the world is the typical New Yorker. . . . He believes the sun rises just over the East River and sets behind the Palisades. . . .
To tell the New Yorker anything is impossible. Perhaps that is why he is so ignorant. Even Greenwich Village is sophisticated to the last degree, hardened in its own imbecility. Humor ... is totally lacking. The typical New Yorker never laughs....
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