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July 26, 1941

The New Yorker cover for July 26, 1941

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Big Geographer

E. J. Kahn

PROFILE of John Kirtland Wright, director of the American Geographical Society. Tells about its Millionth Map, with the scale of 1:,000,000, or 15.78 miles…