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                            From newyorker.com, August 7, 2013, “Performance Enhancement in Baseball” — an illustrated  post by Jason Novak and Mike Duncan. (Above: one of Mr. Novak’s drawings from the piece).   and…   Another interesting post from Attempted Bloggery, August 9, 2013, “Rea Irvin: Vacationtime in the Virgin Islands”

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Ziegler’s repeated vowels

  A fun way to begin the day with this brief but informative post from Stephen Nadler’s blog, Attempted Bloggery:  “The Alliterative Jack Ziegler” (above: Ziegler’s 1978 classic cartoon collection, Hamburger Madness)

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An Arno Easter Cover, and more…

From Stephen Nadler’s fun blog, attemptedbloggery, March 30, 2013, “Peter Arno’s Easter Parade” — Mr. Nadler takes us back to 1931 and the era of top hats on Fifth Avenue. And… On The New Yorker’s website there’s a look at more recent (1993 – 2010) Easter covers that have adorned the magazine.

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