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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
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Subject: Re: Major Taylor
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 09:47:36 -0400
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On Fri, 30 May 2025 06:25:00 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
wrote:

>On Fri, 30 May 2025 06:18:01 -0400, Catrike Ryder
><Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 29 May 2025 16:36:45 -0400, Frank Krygowski
>><frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>>Major Taylor made the cover of The New Yorker magazine.
>>>
>>>https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2025-06-02
>>>
>>>He deserves more recognition than he commonly gets.
>>
>>An article in an obscure paywalled leftist magazine isn't going to get
>>him much recognition.
>
>Not really "obscure":
><https://deadline.com/2025/02/new-yorker-centenary-defies-magazine-downturn-1236296103/>
>"The New Yorker with its 1.23 million subscribers..."

In the USA, they're rated as 21st, after The American Legion Magazine
and American Rifleman, both of which are also obscure..

Actually, all magazines are obscure, nowdays.

--
C'est bon
Soloman