William Shawn
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"William Shawn" was an Americans/American magazine editor who edited The New Yorker from 1952 until 1987.

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The New Yorker has devoted itself for 59 years not only to facts and literal accuracy but to truth. And truth begins, journalistically, with the facts.

With one stroke, ... this article will take the entire reputation of the New York Herald Tribune and thrust it down into the gutter, along with ...

This is beyond libelous. This is murderous.

We have a policy at The New Yorker, ... That is, if someone doesn't want to be profiled, we drop it. I would like you to show me the same courtesy.

This is beyond libelous, ... This is murderous.

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