The New Yorker is my favourite. At its best, the writing in it is dizzyingly good. It's best feature are the clippings (which I learned are called newsbreaks, courtesy of this site).

They have been appearing in the New Yorker since its inception. They are submitted by readers and also fastidiously gathered by members of staff.

They were originally used when there were column inches remaining at the end of feature articles, but soon became a favourite feature in their own right. According to 'Ask the Librariians': "By the 1930s, readers were sending in as many as a thousand 'newsbreaks' a week; at that time, the magazine also employed staff members whose duties included scanning the daily newspapers for potential breaks."

Nowadays, the New Yorker receives far fewer clippings than itused to, and no one on staff is now employed to scan papers and other journals for potential scre ups. In spite of this, most of the clippings printed in The New Yorker still come from readers.

Very popular in these Newsbreaks were 'etaoin shrdlu'-sequences of letters that occur on a linotype machine. Often they came out such as: "Her name was given to the police as mari etoin".

See, the letters on Linotype keyboards were arrayed by letter frequency,

'Etaoin shrdlu' were the first two vertical columns on the left side of the keyboard. Linotype operators who had made a typing error could not easily go back to delete it, and had to finish the line before they could eject the slug and re-key a new one. Since the line with the error would be discarded and hence its contents didn't matter (and since the line needed to be filled to successfully pass through the casting unit), the quickest way to enter enough letters to finish it was to run a finger down the keys, creating this nonsense phrase.

After casting the final line of the story an operator placed the rejects in the empty assembler, filled the line by running a finger down the keys (with a spaceband between each line), added a few em spaces, and sent the line of mats through. Such lines would normally have been caught by the proofreaders or compositor.