Poetic Obituaries: [George] Hitchcock, a former actor,

playwright and political organizer, founded Kayak in 1964 and for the next 20 years ran it as a one-man show. He designed the magazine, edited it, printed it, illustrated it and organized the collating parties where its pages were stapled together, slipped into mailing envelopes and stamped.

With great ingenuity, he created Kayak's archly cruel rejection slips: Victorian engravings depicting a beheading, or a mountain climber slipping into a crevasse, with a brush-off caption appended

from The New York Times: George Hitchcock, Kayak Magazine Founder, Dies at 96
then Los Angeles Times: George Hitchcock dies at 96; poet and publisher of the literary magazine 'kayak'
then Santa Cruz News: George Hitchcock, Jorge-of-all-trades

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