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Mario Cuomo hovers on the edge of acceptability. The Governor needs a little feathering on the sides and in the rear so he does not look quite so much like a provincial New Yorker. After all, he is running to be President of all the people, not just Queens. Howard Baker has a fine haircut for a Vice President, Milt insists, which is Milt's way of suggesting he come around for a trim...
...story that ran on February *** 1987 about the New Yorker magazine misidentified Charles McGrath. He is managing editor for fiction. That same article also misspelled the names of George W.S. Trow '65 and Hendrik Hertzberg...
...longstanding commitment to activism spurred Jonathan Schell '65 to develop an interest in politics and public policy. The New Yorker editor and prize-winning author, who described himself as an "apolitical" Kirkland House student during his undergraduateyears at Harvard...
...argument did not sway Gottlieb, who lunched next day with Shawn at the Algonquin Hotel, the fabled watering hole of such bygone New Yorker wits as Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker. The two men had never met. As they settled at Shawn's regular table, Gottlieb gave Shawn his reply to the petition, a three-sentence note that expressed sympathy but declared his intention "to take up this new job." As Gottlieb toyed with his omelet and Shawn ate an English muffin, the two decided that Gottlieb should take over in mid- February, after a week spent working with Shawn...
After 35 years as a revered father figure to The New Yorker, Editor William Shawn is abruptly retired by the magazine' s owner...