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...YORKER magazine will celebrate the 90th anniversary of its founding this month, and the occasion will be suitably honored by Brendan Gill's amiable in-house chronicle. Here At The New Yorker. Gill has been there during most of the magazine's lifetime, having been taken on as a staff writer straight from Yale in the late 30's and has enjoyed the company and the friendship of many of the literary figures that history and their New York Times obituaries will inevitably associate with the magazine...
Gill offers his life at The New Yorker as an example of what can be done with some talent and some money, if one knows how. He wants, in particular, to encourage "the young, who even in these easy going seventies hear far too much about what a serious matter life is." And certainly, his portraits of the times with Thurber and Ross, John O'Hara, Edmund Wilson, and so on, are pleasant evidence for his thesis. Some of his contemporaries may have had trouble learning the first rule of life--always to have a good time--but Gill, says...
Gill's took doesn't pretend to be anything more than a collection of enjoyable anecdotes and the sort of behind-the-scenes glimpses that curious New Yorker readers hunger for. As a history of what, after all, began as a humor magazine. Here at The New Yorker can't be faulted. Gill and The New Yorker have come a long way since Gill was a writer of casuals for a new magazine whose first rule was never to write for "the old lady in Dubuque, but through it all a characteristic "New Yorker style" has been preserved...
...would be the grossest distortion to pretend that editorial cartoonists are all Goyas in a hurry. Nothing inspires bromides like a deadline. Artists against the clock have too often relied on labels and fatigued metaphors to make their point. Back in 1925, The New Yorker lampooned the journeyman cartoonist with his crayoned clichés: the literalized Sea of Public Indignation; the bearded Radical; the masked thief with his tag of Crime Wave; the debt-ridden Commuter...
...Jackie Kennedy Onassis going broke? Was she casting about for a way to boost her income when, unasked, she sent in to The New Yorker a 1,500-word piece on New York's new International Center of Photography? It was published in the Jan. 13 issue of the magazine-unsigned, like all "Talk of the Town" contributions. Editor William Shawn did not divulge her fee, saying only that she would be paid at "regular rates, which run into the hundreds rather than the thousands." The same week Jackie reaped $3,000 from the sale at a Manhattan auction...