70 Year Magazine Archive

Notes & Asides

by Wm. F. Buckley Jr.

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Greetings:

Here’s a non-political letter for you. Aren’t you bothered that nearly every magazine on or off the newsstands is handsomer, or prettier-watch the sexism, boy-than national review? Do you realize how many issues of New Times I bought, attracted by its clever headlines and catchy covers, before I realized how little content that magazine has? Can you imagine how many issues of NR are unbought (no, you can’ tun buy something. You cannot buy something. I dread writing this letter; you people appear so fastidious about syntax and such I expect to get this letter back without reply but covered with red-circled corrections. Take two:) Can you imagine how many issues of NR are not bought, appearing dull or severe, leaving many would-be readers unaware of how much your magazine has to offer?

William F. Buckley Jr.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review magazine in 1955.

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