Article & Audio & Video Of Interest: Barbara Shermund; A New Yorker State Of Mind Looks At The Issue Of April 18, 1931; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Yesterday’s

Article & Audio & Video Of Interest: Barbara Shermund From WOUB, Public Radio, May 8, 2020, “When Your Lost Relative Turns Out To Be A Monumental Artist” —  this piece, with accompanying audio and video features  about Amanda Gormley delving into the life and work of her aunt, the late very great Barbara Shermund. Above left: A Shermund self-portrait. Right:

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A Sunday New Yorker Puzzler

A Sunday Puzzler Going through one of our bound volumes of The New Yorker (the issues of February 22, 1936 – May 16, 1936), and looking specifically at the issue of March 14, 1936, I came across a few missing pages — the bound copy jumped from page 36 to 41. Curious as to what pages were removed I went

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