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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 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 ...