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I don't think they linked to the article they are analyzing, so here it is: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima https://www.newyorker.com/m

I don't think they linked to the article they are analyzing, so here it is: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima

dan-robertson 5y ago
(And a follow up about 40 years later: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1985/07/15/hiroshima-the-aftermath https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1985/07/15/hiroshima-the-... )
- gxqoz 5y ago
  And a small update from last week on how they discovered some rare "white band" copies of the original magazine at a high school named for Hersey: https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/a-rare-discovery-on-the-seventy-fifth-anniversary-of-john-herseys-hiroshima https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/a-rare-discovery... "The white band had originally been added as a bit of an afterthought. The editors knew that Hersey’s report was shocking, and they quickly realized that the cover they’d chosen for the issue—a vibrant, bucolic scene of children and families frolicking in a park—might not give readers enough warning about the devastating nature of its contents. (New Yorker covers rarely have a connection with the contents of an issue, but, in this particular case, the dissonance was marked.) “My God, how would a guy feel, buying the magazine intending to sit in a barber’s chair and read it!” one editor was said to have thought, during a meeting at the time. So the white band was hastily added to about forty thousand newsstand copies in New York. (It was not included in the national run.) Very few copies of the edition with the original band exist today, which is why, as Blume noted, it’s considered one of the “white whales” of the antiquarian-magazine world."
kragen 5y ago
To be fair, I don't think that link existed when Steve wrote this 24 years ago; the New Yorker set up a web site in November 01998, and the WABAC machine's first snapshots of that link are from 02014: https://web.archive.org/web/20140723205106/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima https://web.archive.org/web/20140723205106/http://www.newyor... Steve's a good person; I'm sure he would have linked to the article he was citing if he could.
- addingnumbers 5y ago
  No judgement, I mentioned I didn't spot a link to preemptively excuse myself in case it was redundant

I don't think they linked to the article they are analyzing, so here it is: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima

dan-robertson 5y ago

(And a follow up about 40 years later: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1985/07/15/hiroshima-the-aftermath https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1985/07/15/hiroshima-the-... )

gxqoz 5y ago
And a small update from last week on how they discovered some rare "white band" copies of the original magazine at a high school named for Hersey: https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/a-rare-discovery-on-the-seventy-fifth-anniversary-of-john-herseys-hiroshima https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/a-rare-discovery... "The white band had originally been added as a bit of an afterthought. The editors knew that Hersey’s report was shocking, and they quickly realized that the cover they’d chosen for the issue—a vibrant, bucolic scene of children and families frolicking in a park—might not give readers enough warning about the devastating nature of its contents. (New Yorker covers rarely have a connection with the contents of an issue, but, in this particular case, the dissonance was marked.) “My God, how would a guy feel, buying the magazine intending to sit in a barber’s chair and read it!” one editor was said to have thought, during a meeting at the time. So the white band was hastily added to about forty thousand newsstand copies in New York. (It was not included in the national run.) Very few copies of the edition with the original band exist today, which is why, as Blume noted, it’s considered one of the “white whales” of the antiquarian-magazine world."

kragen 5y ago

To be fair, I don't think that link existed when Steve wrote this 24 years ago; the New Yorker set up a web site in November 01998, and the WABAC machine's first snapshots of that link are from 02014: https://web.archive.org/web/20140723205106/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima https://web.archive.org/web/20140723205106/http://www.newyor... Steve's a good person; I'm sure he would have linked to the article he was citing if he could.

addingnumbers 5y ago
No judgement, I mentioned I didn't spot a link to preemptively excuse myself in case it was redundant