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...strongest when it just records the charming confluence of circumstances and skill that made him one of the most admired, imitated and influential writers of his time. After graduating from college, White took odd jobs in journalism, advertising and public relations. He was, in retrospect, simply waiting for Harold Ross to dream up The New Yorker. Nine weeks after the inaugural issue appeared in February 1925, the first of thousands of White contributions graced its pages. When he was invited to join the magazine's staff, his interviewer was Ross's assistant, Katharine Angell. She was seven years...
During the Depression, he bought a 40-acre farm in North Brooklin on the Maine sea-coast (where he lives to this day), and beat the first of several retreats from the tender trap of The New Yorker. A mystified Ross was heard to complain: "He just sails around in some God damn boat." During his sabbaticals White also compiled (with Katharine) the enormously successful A Subtreasury of American Humor; he revised and updated the yellowing strictures of one of his Cornell English professors into The Elements of Style, a tiny textbook that has sold in the millions; he wrote...
...looked like it would all hinge on the final relay when the Nittany Lions Rob Kramer opened up a 5-yd, lead on teammate Gerry Ross and Harvard freshman Lars Reierson. But in the final lap, Reierson charged ferociously past both opponents to give the aquamen the minimum 57 points required for the win, capping the Crimson's gradual return to Eastern swimming supremacy...
...Harvard men's volleyball team won the Harvard Invitational Tournament Saturday at the IAB, downing MIT in an extremely close five-set final. Paced by Jon Ross's spiking and David Twite's defensing, the Crimson stopped the Engineers...
...decision to leave Philip Morris as his former associates are. There was, of course, the classic lure of rescuing and running a company on his own and the undeniable mystique of the technological future. "The Atari name did it," says one go-between who arranged the Morgan and Ross meeting. "Morgan never would have gone if it had been Coleco." He also got one of the most lucrative safety nets ever written into a business contract. Although Morgan will not comment on it, Atari insiders place his guarantee at more than $8.5 million over the next seven years. Moreover, sweeteners...