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POSTSCRIPT.(The Talk of the Town)(Cecille Shawn, editor)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
A letter arrived the other day bearing the news that Cecille Shawn, the wife of William Shawn, who was the editor of The New Yorker from 1952 to 1987, had passed away. The letter was from one of the Shawns' three children, the composer Allen Shawn, and he wrote to say that "our mother died peacefully at home on October 30th. She was ninety-nine years old." Cecille Shawn, who was born Cecille Lyon, grew up in Chicago and, as a young woman, worked as the editor of the features page of the Chicago Daily News. She created a game using a character named Blundering Ben, in which readers scored points by finding misused words and phrases. When she was eighteen, Cecille was introduced to ...
- Mr. Shawn's New Yorker: for forty years William Shawn was a world traveller -...
- Magazine article from: Columbia Journalism Review Wechsler, Lawrence March 1, 1993 700+ words
For nearly forty years William Shawn was a world traveler -- of sorts...all his legendary agoraphobia, William Shawn was at the same time a profound...had been the very hallmark of William Shawn's New Yorker. William Shawn...
- William Shawn, R I P. (New Yorker magazine editor) (Obituary)
- Magazine article from: National Review Buckley, William F., Jr. January 18, 1993 700+ words
...National Review Dear John: You asked me to do an obit on William Shawn, and I replied that I could not write a formal piece about...go on reading. Meanwhile, I send you warmest regards, William Shawn Obviously, he was "Mr. Shawn" to me, as he was Mr...
- A New Yorker love story: he was a legendary editor; she was his adoring...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek Shapiro, Laura May 4, 1998 700+ words
...hagiographic portrait of the late, celebrated New Yorker editor William Shawn--her semisecret lover for 40 years. Although Random House...acolytes do. "Surprising as it may seem on the surface, William Shawn and Tina Brown ... are indeed similar," she insists in...
- Mr. Shawn's New Yorker. (editor William Shawn and The New Yorker)
- Magazine article from: National Review Brookhiser, Richard August 3, 1998 700+ words
...was not the only black man in America to earn an advanced degree, but is the only one invariably called ''Dr.,'' so William Shawn, the late editor of The New Yorker, is the only man in America of any hue whose surname never appears without that mild...
- The willy Mr. Shawn.("New Yorker" editor William Shawn)(Review)
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Allen, Brooke September 1, 1998 700+ words
...an even more seismic event in the magazine's life: its 1985 takeover by Newhouse, and his ousting of longtime editor William Shawn, the man who for many years personified and defined The New Yorker. The avid interest taken in two new chronicles of Shawn...
- TASTELESS TELL-ALL MEMOIR DOES DISSERVICE TO WILLIAM SHAWN.(Lifestyle)(Review)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) June 1, 1998 700+ words
Under its legendary editor William Shawn, The New Yorker magazine not only gained a reputation for its fiction and political reportage, but it also developed an anomalous...
- Inner city youths to speak on overcoming adversity. (Jacqueline Bell, Andrew...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 14, 1989 700+ words
...for R.H. Bacon Clipping Service, is saving her money and plans to return to college and finish her nursing studies. William Shawn Roberts, 20, dropped out of high school in March 1987, because his grades were poor. He later enrolled in the Jobs For...
- William Shawn and Bede Tobey at a surprise party for James Geraghty, 1973
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
