Wednesday Spill: Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary…Alfred Leete; A Glass Case In A Westchester Cemetery

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Wednesday Spill: Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary…Alfred Leete; A Glass Case In A Westchester Cemetery

______________________________________________________________________ Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary: Alfred Leete As we lead up to the magazine’s birthday issue, I thought I’d occasionally toss the spotlight onto the cartoons (and cartoonists) appearing in the very first issue (February 21, 1925).   The above drawing by Alfred Leete appears on page 14 of that first issue. IDing Mr. Leete took some doing (as you can see by the b…