That's why we're pleased as punch to hear that founding co-editor and all-around good guy R.

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Once in a while he wrote brief letters to the editor using the name A. Sock, a wordplay on Punch.

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Not to put too fine a point on it, he acted as a cat's-paw for his boss, Punch Sulzberger, when the publisher got rid of his own more liberal cousin, John Oakes, as editor of the editorial page.

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