Tuesday, December 16, 2008

News at Eleven (Back Page): Carla Bruni, comment ça va?

Et Georges Cluny--connais pas?
So ha'r you doin', George F. Will,
Drew Gilpin Faust, and Dr. Phil?

Longtime readers of The New Yorker will not, of course, need to be reminded who Mr. [Roger] Angell is--an eminent baseball writer, an editor at the magazine since 1956 and the stepson of E. B. White. But they may wonder where "Greetings, Friends!," an annual poem that was a New Yorker institution for nearly eight decades, has been. It was written by Frank Sullivan from 1932 until 1974, and by Mr. Angell starting in 1976. But "Greetings, Friends!" vanished after its 1998 iteration and has not been seen again until now.

What happened?

from The New York Times: Rhyming Name Dropper Returns

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