HAROLD ROSS:
Founding Editor

"Ross is a kind of impostor. The New Yorker is urbane; cactus is more urbane than Ross. The New Yorker carries understatement almost to the point of inaudibility; with Ross the expletive crowds out most of the eight parts of speech....It is true that he never had a high school education; but it is also true that he is a master grammarian, and that the superb sense of style which informs The New Yorker flows in part from his clean, uncompromising feeling for the English language."

Click here to read the second half of the Harold Ross profile. This portion is decorated with rejected cartoons from The New Yorker

Ross never forgot his days in Paris as the editor of The Stars & Stars, click here to read an article about that period in his life.

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