Word: yorkerism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magazine grew and became hugely successful, such anecdotes of life in The New Yorker office became the talk of the town. By insiders, its success was attributed not only to the ornery talents of its contributors but also to Ross's "thousands and thousands of tiny prejudices...
...fiction, Ross was never as sure of his touch-or The New Yorker's-as he was on fact. He ceaselessly searched for new authors, helped them develop new ways of telling stories, liked them plotless. But he was not always sure what the often neurotic, atmospheric stories were about. Once he grumbled: "I'm never going to buy another story I don't understand...
When success came to The New Yorker -its present circulation is 350,000, including 75 subscribers in Dubuque-Ross grew periodically bored, and the magazine occasionally suffered from it. Last April, he began to turn some of his work over to his editors, and stopped coming regularly to the office. But this time it was not boredom but something else. Last week, at 59, Editor Ross died in a Boston hospital after an operation for cancer...
Will The New Yorker keep its tone and quality without him? The staff thought it would; their indoctrination has been thorough. For the time being, the magazine will be run by the board of editors who took over when Ross became ill. The board includes William Shawn, 44, managing editor for nonfiction; Gus Lobrano, 49, managing editor for fiction, Art Editor James Geraghty, Executive Editor Leo Hofeller, Mrs. E. B. White, a fiction editor, and Hawley Truax, vice president. Eventually, a chief editor, probably Shawn, will be named...
Died. Harold Wallace Ross, 59, founder (1925) and editor of The New Yorker; after an operation for cancer of the lung; in Boston (see PRESS...