"I figure I can always get ONE of them to start."

Robert Day

The New Yorker, June 12, 1948

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A 1948 photograph of New Yorker staff members and a fact checking memo from Frederick Packard to Ross

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A Fact Checking Department banner by Anne Mortimer-Maddox, c. 1970

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This 1940 photograph of "Letter from Paris" correspondent Janet Flanner, or #Genêt, is by Carl Van Vechten.

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With cartoons by Al Ross and Whitney Darrow, Jr.

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The envelope, please. And the winning caption is . . .

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I voted like a Bohemian.

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The streets are teeming with finalists.

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#Caption Contest Cartoon by Elisabeth McNair

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