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October 14, 1961

The New Yorker cover for October 14, 1961

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“The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”

Muriel Spark

Fiction, from 1961: “Even before the official opening of her prime, Miss Brodie’s colleagues in the Junior School had been gradually turning against her.”