On this happy occasion of the 100th anniversary of The New Yorker, it’s instructive to look at the second issue of the magazine, dated February 28, 1925. Was it perhaps too soon for Harold Ross to look back (one week!) critically on his debut issue? From everything I’ve read about Ross, the answer is no. It has been said that
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We’re just a couple of days from the publication of The New Yorker‘s 100th anniversary issue. I thought this as good a time as any to toast Harold Ross, the fellow who invented the magazine, along with his wife, Jane Grant. Together they figured out the look, the financing, and the content of (in Ms. Grant’s words) the “introductory number.”
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Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary: The 25th, 50th, and 75th Anniversary Issues I thought it would be fun on this Friday, the day The New Yorker‘s 100th Anniversary issue closes, and just days before it is published, to take a quick look at how the magazine celebrated its other “big” milestones. If you have a subscription, you can spend
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There are plenty of stories of Thurber drawing on the walls of The New Yorker‘s offices, but sadly, only a few of those drawings survived. Directly below you see some of them in their original location at 25 West 43rd Street (photo taken by Liza Donnelly years and years ago on the day she and I stopped in to see
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