http://newyorker.com/archive/content/?020819fr_archive01 Review from 1945: frozen dinners. Lots of (unnecessary?) flourishes. (e.g. “This is all the doing of a New York inventor named William L. Maxson, who has been a grandfather for five months, closely resembles Henry VIII, and is left-handed.”)
(This is by Lillian Ross, who is still writing for the magazine. The latest issue has a “Talk of the Town” piece about “Camp Broadway,” a summer camp for aspiring actors.) 14:24