New Yorker December 21 1935 Christmas Ilonka Karasz Thurber Ogden Nash Addams

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The New Yorker Magazine December 21, 1935, the complete issue in good shape. Ilonka Karasz created this marvelous Christmas cover, a snowy New York neighborhood scene outside a fruit-and-vegetable market decked with wreaths and evergreen garlands. Christmas-tree shoppers crowd the sidewalk among enormous firs, a grocer tends his brilliantly colored display of fruit, wreaths fill the upstairs windows, and snow falls steadily over the city street—a wonderfully atmospheric Karasz portrait of Christmas in New York. Here are a few of the reasons this issue is interesting: James Thurber considers Mary Pickford's pronouncements on morality and the movies; John A. Holmes looks at children's literature from Peter Rabbit to Winnie-the-Pooh; Edmund Pearson recounts the sensational nineteenth-century murder of New York dentist Harvey Burdell and the extraordinary case that followed; Katharine Brush writes about New Yorkers; Robert Benchley covers the theatre; and the issue includes Ogden Nash, E. B. White, Frank Sullivan, Charles Addams, Helen E. Hokinson, Robert A. Simon, John C. Mosher, Clifton Fadiman, and much more, as described below. In This Issue Comment John Gilchrist, K. McFarlane, and E. B. White offer Christmas greetings inspired by a street band playing “Jingle Bells” beneath the New Yorker offices, the musicians' lips cold against their horns and their imperfect but heartfelt performance providing exactly the sort of unexpected music the writers enjoy most. E. B. White also

• Publisher: New Yorker
• Year: 1935
• Condition: Good

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