Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary: 25 West 45th Street Here’s a contemporary photo of 25 West 45th Street, where The New Yorker‘s first offices were located (the building was, in the 1920s, owned by the Fleischmann family. Raoul Fleischmann, who put up the lion’s share of cash to fund the new magazine, offered office space to Harold Ross).
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A Thurber Introduction To The Wizard Of Oz Just the other day a never-before-seen by-me 1960 paperback copy of The Wizard Of Oz turned up in a search. As you see, Introduction By James Thurber is featured on the paperback’s cover. On the copyright page there’s this: The piece, “The Wizard
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______________________________________________________________________ Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary: Alfred Leete As we lead up to the magazine’s birthday issue, I thought I’d occasionally toss the spotlight onto the cartoons (and cartoonists) appearing in the very first issue (February 21, 1925). The above drawing by Alfred Leete appears on page 14 of that first issue. IDing Mr. Leete took some doing
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A Game (File Under: The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary Celebration) The New Yorker has introduced something they call “Laugh Lines.” It has to do with placing New Yorker cartoons in the correct period they were published. I’ve said it before (will I ever say it again?) — I’m not a puzzles person (other than solving the daily puzzles that are the
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