He entered, no doubt, to applause

Caricaturist Al Hirschfeld died yesterday at 99. Here's his obituary.



I must admit I'd always wanted to meet him, and pump him for stories of Groucho and Perelman. As well as being from St. Louis, he was also the last link to that era of humor that I love so much, the one born in the Twenties which died after the War. Ave atque vale, Al.