Mr. Shawn's New Yorker. (editor William Shawn and The New Yorker)

National Review | August 3, 1998| | Copyright

AFTER a few years of bimonthly lunching with Carlos, a friend who once worked for The New Yorker, I noticed that he always let me exit the restaurant first.

''Some day,'' I told him, ''I will follow you out a door.''

Carlos doubted it. ''I was trained by Mr. Shawn,'' he boasted. Just as Martin Luther King Jr. was not the only black man in America to earn an advanced degree, but is the only one invariably called ''Dr.,'' so William Shawn, the late editor of The New Yorker, is the only man in America of any hue whose surname never appears without that mild ...

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