This coming Sunday, the 8th of December, marks two anniversaries of note, one happy and the other not at all happy. The happier one: James Thurber was born that day in 1894. The unhappy anniversary: it was on that day in 1980 that the former Beatle, John Lennon was murdered in New York City. Other than that
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A Pile of Newspapers and a Magazine: John Lennon and The New Yorker
I‘ve a habit of examining photos for the little things in the background. While browsing through the recent issue of Rolling Stone (with the John Lennon cover story) I paused to take a closer look at an Annie Leibovitz photo – one I’d seen before, but in a ever-so-slightly edited form. The photograph was taken at The Dakota, December 8,
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