Politics entered the magazine. The politics of the early New Yorker were no politics. Then, Vietnam arrived and the New Yorker took a stand, I'm proud to say, and at the cost of some advertising as well. So it is not a static magazine. It is a rare thing in America that a magazine doesn't have it's peak and die.
Life magazine is the same.
Esquire had this great flowering in the sixties with new journalism. The New Yorker has had a number of very distinct peaks in its existence. I think that's something unique in magazine life and in American life. It's curious, isn't it, if people come to sort of think that a magazine actually belongs to them in some way. In a way.