This issue devoted to the color blue included references to bluejay, blue sky, blue crab, blue collar, blue whale, blue blood, blue suede shoes, bluegrass, blue dahlia, Bluebeard, blue movie, blue sea, Blue Cross, blue pencil, blue serge suite, blue nose. Chwast’s art described a romance between blue clouds, Friedman photographed four women in a “blue mood,” and Barbara Sandler’s Billie Holiday illustrated William Gass’s “Dissertation on the Shades of Meaning in a Single Hue.”