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At least once in a while. From time to time David Remnick breaks his vow not to let The New Yorker become a tomb o' Tilleys and allows something related to the magazine's history into, for example, the events listings:
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
The Peccadillo Theatre Company’s brisk and clever play about the wits who gathered at the Algonquin Round Table in the twenties, featuring well-crafted period-style songs by Ginny Redington and Tom Dawes, plays every Monday night this summer in the hotel’s Oak Room. (59 W. 44th St. 212-840-6800.)
[The Spurs' Robert] Horry is five victories from a sixth NBA championship ring that would tie him with Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the most bejeweled basketball players since the Celtics teams of the '50s, '60s and '70s.
The only other Robert we can think of who so unexpectedly found himself in such esteemed company was a writer named Benchley, who hung out at the Algonquin Round Table in New York with Dorothy Parker.
Like Benchley, Horry's credentials are impeccable. He wasn't just along for the rings in Houston and L.A. and it's more of the same thing in San Antonio. In 13 NBA seasons, Horry's teams always have advanced past the first round of the playoffs.