Liza Donnelly In Newsweek Series, “Why Do We…?” Liza Donnelly, whose first New Yorker cartoon appeared in 1982, teams up with host, the best-selling author, Martin Lindstrom, for the Newsweek series, “Why Do We…? More information, and link to episodes here. _______________________________________________________________________
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Revisiting Newsweek’s Thurber Cover Story I’ve a feeling that most Thurberites will recall the July 9,1951 TIME Magazine Thurber Cover story, and the cover itself, but might be hard pressed to remember that Thurber appeared on Newsweek‘s cover six years later. My guess
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Looking over the Spill‘s Helen Hokinson shelf this morning I came across the “Polite Society” catalog from a 1985 exhibit at the Peoria, Illinois Lakeview Museum Of Arts and Sciences. Altho it’s only 33 pages, the catalog packs in a lot of information and cartoons, some of them previously unpublished. The catalog’s cover itself includes an unpublished drawing
Read moreNewsweek’s Thurber Cover Story In July of 1951, TIME put Thurber on its cover — it’s the cover most Thurber biographies mention. Newsweek’s Thurber cover, out six years later, is rarely mentioned. Thinking about it this morning, I dug out the sole bound volume of Newsweek in the Spill‘s library (acquired, obviously, because it contains
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