POSTSCRIPT.(The Talk of the Town)(Cecille Shawn, editor)(Brief Article)(Obituary)

Publication: The New Yorker

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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...

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