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Princeton Tiger
''Princeton Tiger'' or ''Tiger Magazine'' is the second oldest college humor magazine in the United States, published by Princeton University undergraduates since 1882. It is best known for giving the start to literary and artistic talent as wide-ranging as F. Scott Fitzgerald, John McPhee, Jim Lee, Booth Tarkington. and Tim Ferriss, first publishing the " Man from Nantucket" limerick, and being the first published source using the Tiger as mascot for Princeton. History The magazine's style has not remained stagnant over the past 135 years. While the format in the mid-20th century still tended towards humorous, light pieces, the off-campus circulation was broader and the writing reflected it. In recent years, ''Tiger Magazine'' has moved to the internet, where it has begun to expand its topics to be more accessible to those outside of Princeton. Past editorial boards have occasionally published material sufficiently offensive as to spark controversy. Most famous among those co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humor Magazine
A humor magazine is a magazine specifically designed to deliver humorous content to its readership. These publications often offer satire and parody, but some also put an emphasis on cartoons, caricature, absurdity, one-liners, witty aphorisms, surrealism, neuroticism, gelotology, emotion-regulating humor, and/or humorous essays. Humor magazines first became popular in the early 19th century with specimens like ''Le Charivari'' (1832–1937) in France, ''Punch'' (1841–2002) in the United Kingdom and '' Vanity Fair'' (1859–1863) in the United States. Contemporary humor magazines Out-of-print humor magazines {, class="sortable wikitable" , - ! width="110", Title ! width="75", Language ! width="45", Country ! width="80", Years published ! width="100", Notable Contributors ! width="50", Frequency ! width="100", Medium ! width="100", Classification , - , '' Army Man'' , English , USA , 1988–1990 , George Meyer, John Swartzwelder, Jack Handey, Mark O'Donnell , 3 issues , Pape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chip Deffaa
Chip Deffaa is an American author, playwright, jazz historian, songwriter, director, and producer of plays and recordings. For 18 years, he wrote for the ''New York Post'', covering jazz, cabaret, and theater. He has contributed to ''Jazz Times'', ''The Mississippi Rag'', ''Down Beat'', ''Cabaret Scenes'', England's ''Crescendo'', and ''Entertainment Weekly''. He was born in New Rochelle, New York. Career Deffaa wrote and directed '' George M. Cohan Tonight!'' off-Broadway in New York at the Irish Repertory Theatre. The cast album was released in 2006 by Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records. ''George M. Cohan Tonight!'' opened September 21, 2010 at the New Players Theater on the West End in London/ Deffaa directed a production of ''George M. Cohan Tonight!'' starring Jon Peterson—star of the original Off-Broadway production—in Seoul, Korea in July 2016. After several regional productions, ''One Night with Fanny Brice'' was produced Off-Broadway in New York at St. Luke's Theatre, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Witte
Michael Witte (born 1944) is an American-born illustrator and cartoonist. Witte has been a regular contributor to ''TIME'', ''Harper’s'', ''Rolling Stone'', ''Fortune'', ''The New York Times'' and ''The Wall Street Journal''. His art has appeared on the covers of ''The New Yorker'', ''Atlantic Monthly'', ''Newsweek'', ''Forbes'' and the ''Princeton Alumni Weekly'' as well as "The New Yorker Book of" cartoon series. He wrote and illustrated the best-selling ''Book of Terns'' (1978), ''Claus!'' (1982) and also co-wrote ''Otter Nonsense'' (1994) with best-selling children's book author Norton Juster. From 1974 to 1976, Witte collaborated with Mets/Phillies pitching great Tug McGraw on a nationally syndicated, sports-themed comic strip '' Scroogie''. The strips were collected in ''Scroogie'' (1976) and ''Hello There, Ball!'' (1977). A lifelong baseball fan, Witte later contributed on-the-air cartoon commentary during the 2003 Yankees-Marlins World Series. Since 2005, he has w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Whelan
Christine Barrett Whelan (born July 5, 1977) is a writer, journalist, and commentator. She is the author of two books about marriage, two self-help books for young-adults and Great Courses Audible Original lecture series on purpose. She is a clinical professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Early life Whelan was born in New York City to attorney Stephen T. Whelan and Elizabeth M. Whelan, an author and public health specialist. At eight years old, Whelan was the moderator for "No Kidding," a nationally syndicated health talk show for kids, by kids, produced by the American Council on Science and Health, the organization her mother founded. Education Whelan earned her undergraduate degree from Princeton University, graduating ''magna cum laude'' with a degree in Politics. Whelan subsequently was awarded the 1999 Daniel M. Sachs scholarship, one of Princeton's highest honors, which enabled her to study at Worcester College, Oxford. As a Sachs Scholar, she studied Econom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katrina Vanden Heuvel
Katrina vanden Heuvel (; born October 7, 1959) is an American editor and publisher. She is the publisher, part-owner, and former editor of the progressive magazine ''The Nation''. She was the magazine's editor from 1995 to 2019, when she was succeeded by D. D. Guttenplan. She is often a commentator on political television programs. Vanden Heuvel is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a US nonprofit think tank. She is a recipient of the Norman Mailer Prize. Early life and education Katrina vanden Heuvel was born in New York City, the daughter of Jean Stein, an heiress, best-selling author, and editor of the literary journal ''Grand Street'', and William vanden Heuvel, an attorney, former US ambassador, member of John F. Kennedy's administration, businessman, and author. She has one sister and two step-siblings. Her maternal grandparents were Music Corporation of America founder Jules C. Stein and Doris Babbette Jones (originally Jonas). Through Doris, vanden Heuvel i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Thomas
Lewis Thomas (November 25, 1913 – December 3, 1993) was an American physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher. Thomas was born in Flushing, New York and attended Princeton University and Harvard Medical School. He became Dean of Yale Medical School and New York University School of Medicine, and President of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute. His formative years as an independent medical researcher were at Tulane University School of Medicine. He was invited to write regular essays in the ''New England Journal of Medicine''. One collection of those essays, '' The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher'' (1974), won annual National Book Awards in two categories, Arts and Letters and The Sciences (both awards were split)."National Book Awards – 1975" . |
Bob Smiley
Bob Smiley (born June 28, 1977 in Ventura, California) is an American TV/film writer-producer and partner in the Humble Picture Company. He is a Writers Guild of America-award winner for his work in kids' TV and the author of two books, the 2008 memoir ''Follow the Roar'' and the 2012 novel ''Don't Mess with Travis''.https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Mess-Travis-Bob-Smiley-ebook/dp/B006ZL1JS0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1524244600&sr=8-1&keywords=don%27t+mess+with+travis+book He has also been a contributing writer to espn.com. TV career Smiley is a writer and producer on the Netflix series ''Atypical''. Before that, he executive produced the Disney Channel pilot '' Forever Boys''. He has also written for ''Yes, Dear'' on CBS, ''The Haunted Hathaways'' on Nickelodeon, and ''Puppy Dog Pals'' on Disney Junior. Humble Picture Company In 2016, Smiley founded the Humble Picture Company with writer Grant Nieporte. Their inaugural producing project is a film adaptation of the book '' Hope Heals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Seabrook
John Seabrook is an American writer. He graduated from St. Andrew's School (DE) in 1976, Princeton University in 1981 and received an M.A. in English Literature from Oxford. He began his career writing about business and published in a wide variety of magazines and newspapers, including '' Harper's'', '' Vanity Fair'', '' GQ'', ''The Nation'', ''The Village Voice'', and the ''Christian Science Monitor''. To date, he has published four books besides contributing numerous articles to ''The New Yorker''. A feature film based on his 2008 book ''Flash of Genius'' was released on October 3, 2008. His new book, The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory was published in October, 2015. Bibliography Books * * * * Essays and reporting * * * * * YouTube. * Nolan Bushnell. * * Tim Maia. * * * * * Michael Nesmith. * Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq Tanya may refer to: * Tanya (Judaism),an early work of Hasidic philosophy by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi. * Tanya (name), a giv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Payne (cartoonist)
Henry Payne (born 1962 in Charleston, West Virginia) is an American editorial cartoonist for ''The Detroit News''. Payne began cartooning when he was a student at Princeton University, drawing for two of its student publications, ''The Daily Princetonian'' and ''The Nassau Weekly''. After graduating with a degree in history, Payne was hired by ''Charleston Daily Mail'' as their staff artist. In 1986, he moved to Washington D.C., working for Scripps Howard News Service as an editorial cartoonist and an editor for its cartoon wire. His cartoons were available though the Associated Press syndication services. ''Detroit News'' hired Payne in 1999 as their cartoonist, replacing Draper Hill, who retired from the paper. Payne's cartoons are syndicated by Andrews McMeel Syndication. In addition to his editorial cartoons, Payne also writes columns for various conservative publications, including the ''National Review'' and the ''Weekly Standard''. Payne has criticized the mainstream med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Offit
Kenneth Offit (born February 19, 1955) is an American cancer geneticist and oncologist. He is currently Chief of the Clinical Genetics Service and the Robert and Kate Niehaus Chair in Inherited Cancer Genomics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Offit is also a member of the Program in Cancer Biology and Genetics at the Sloan-Kettering Institute, Professor of Medicine and Healthcare Policy and Research at Weill Cornell Medical College, and a member of both the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Cancer Institute and the Evaluation of Genomic Applications in Practice and Prevention working group of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Offit has been widely recognized for his discoveries with respect to the genetic bases of breast, colon, and lymphoid cancers. In 2016, he was elected as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine. In 2018, he was named a Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. In 2021, he was named a fellow of the American Associa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Martin (cartoonist)
Henry Martin (July 15, 1925 – June 30, 2020) was an American cartoonist. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky to Lyman and Adele Martin, who were Christians. He had an older brother Lyman Jr. and a younger sister Adele. He went to high school at Texas Country Day (now St. Mark's School of Texas) in Dallas, then graduated from Princeton University in 1948 with a degree in Art History. He subsequently studied art at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. He was the father of popular children's author Ann M. Martin. According to a press release from Princeton University: :Martin worked as a cartoonist and illustrator for more than 50 years, publishing in The New Yorker, Punch, Ladies' Home Journal, The Saturday Evening Post, the Princeton Alumni Weekly and many other magazines. His single-panel comic strip, "Good News/Bad News," was nationally syndicated, and he wrote and/or illustrated more than 35 books. He retired in 1995. In the 1950s and 1960s Mr. Martin provided numerous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Marcus
Aaron Marcus (born 22 May 1943) is an American user-interface and information-visualization designer, as well as a computer graphics artist. Biography Marcus was always interested in both science and technology as well as visual communication. He grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, in the 1950s, he was interested in astronomy and paleontology, and drawing cartoons. He learned painting, and calligraphy. In secondary school, he studied science and art, and was editor of his high-school newspaper. He graduated with an A.B. in physics from Princeton University in 1965 after completing a senior thesis, titled "Determination of the (1,0,0) electronic effective mass in a gallium phosphide semiconductor by means of Raman scattering", under the supervision of John Hopfield. He obtained his BFA and MFA in 1968 at Yale University’s School of Art and Architecture. He learned about painting, drawing, printmaking, and letterpress printing workshops informally, photography, and art history. He a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
