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...judging from the attacks on White which Elledge relates, twentieth-century Americans have not always liked White. In 1935, when The New Yorker was nine years old, both White and his wife Katharine Angell, together with their mutual friend James Thurber, had been making names for themselves through their work on the magazine. Desiring to be both witty and disinterested, informative but sophisticated. The New Yorker...
Most of The New Yorker's vices, as Ingersoll told it, were the fault of the White family...
...complain that The New Yorker has become gentler and gentler, more nebulous, less real, it is the Whites doing: Andy's gossamer writing, in his increasingly important "Notes and Comment," and in his flavoring of the whole magazine with captions and fillers. Katharine's ... civilizing influence on Ross...
White supported himself in New York through work at several jobs, chiefly in advertising. He contributed light poems to the literary magazines of the day, and a few humorous items to The New Yorker, a new magazine being formed by Harold Ross. On the suggestion of Katharine Angell, one of Ross's assistants. White was hired as a more or less regular staff member: only after several months did he give up his advertising job to work full time for the magazine. White began by writing short items and graduated to writing the "Talk of the Town" section. Though troubled...
...times, White's struggle over what American literature and values should be like took comic forms. After Stuart Little had appeared, the reactions at The New Yorker were mixed. Harold Ross shouted at White for saying that the mouse was born, not adopted. White had committed the mortal sin of using the wrong word. Then, reports White...