The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. The New Yorker has gone through a number of survivable events in its 92 year history. It nearly folded in its first six months of existence, but survived when Raoul Fleischmann, its original backer, suddenly turned white knight, decided to pump more
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S.I. Newhouse Jr.: 1927 – 2017
The New York Times has reported that S.I. Newhouse has died at age 89. Here’s the opening to the Times piece, written by Jonathan Kandell: S.I. Newhouse Jr., who as the owner of The New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Architectural Digest and other magazines wielded vast influence over American culture, fashion and social taste, died on Sunday at his home, a
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