On this day, the 21st of February, the date on the very first issue of The New Yorker, I thought it would be fun to line up each anniversary issue celebrating another ten years that followed that first number. Rea Irvin’s Eustace Tilley cover was gilded in 1995, and sat out the 2005, and 2015 anniversary covers, but thankfully returned
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“The New Yorker Asks Consideration For Its First Number” It is remarkable (to me anyway) how much Harold Ross name-dropped The New Yorker in its debut issue. The “Of All Things” column is not all New Yorker all the time, but close. Below is a sample.
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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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