Word: curmudgeon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...travels with its "farflung correspondents" all the way from Third Avenue's saloons to Hiroshima, considers life and letters, as well as laughter, its province. Two-thirds of its 325,000 circulation is outside New York; it has 69 subscribers in Dubuque. Harold Ross, founder, editor and principal curmudgeon, is still head man in what is far from a one-man show. Like the literate, civilized, incisive and frequently funny magazine he edits, Ross himself has changed greatly in some ways, in essence...