A New Weekly Coming

Today’s the day, ninety years ago to be exact, when the new weekly mentioned above turned up on newsstands across Manhattan.  The cover, by Rea Irvin, was surprising.  It featured a drawing of an as yet unnamed gentleman from an earlier time.  How odd, how very strange. Who is that fellow, and why did The New Yorker’s founder and first

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Harold Ross’s Caption Contest

    Less than a year before Harold Ross published the very first issue of his brainchild, The New Yorker, he briefly edited a well-established humor magazine, Judge.  I recently bought a copy of the Ross period Judge to see what I could see (it’s the issue of July 19, 1924). it was odd, but of course not unexpected,  to

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