Harold
Ross
was born in Aspen, Colorado, on 6th November, 1892. At the age of
thirteen he became a reporter on the Salt
Lake City Tribune. He also worked for the Marysville
Appeal in California before joining the United
States Army during the First World War.
In February, 1918 the army established the Stars
and Stripes, an eight-page newspaper based in Paris and
Ross became its editor.
With the financial support of Raoul Fleischmann, Ross launched his
own magazine, The New Yorker,
in 1925. Initially the magazine concentrated on the social and cultural
life of New York City. It eventually
widened its scope and developed a reputation for publishing some of
the best short-stories, cartoons, biographical profiles, foreign reports
and arts reviews. Ross remained the controlling influence over the
magazine until his death on 6th December, 1951.
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