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Celebrating our 135th year

WAS FOUNDED IN APRIL 1887 by two newspapermen, William H. Hills and Robert Luce, and the magazine has routinely commemorated this anniversary in five- and 10-year increments ever since. It’s always such a delight to see how the magazine celebrated the special April anniversary issue over the years, such as when President Kennedy sent a congratulatory letter for ’s 75th year in print in 1962. (“You have performed a real service, particularly

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