when New Yorker He reached for the first time to sell newspapers, a hundred years ago this week, it was hardly an immediate feeling. Not only were the first issues of discrimination and sales; Harold Ross, his founding editor, has been nearly from the entire fake establishment on a night all night Poker game.
Ross was born in Asben, Colorado, the son of a silver mine and a teacher, was a person who was a troubled young man-a raw young man, who comes out of pages Mark Twin Or Brett Hart. Starting from escaping from the house, at the age of fourteen, he worked in a long series of newspapers – from Sacramento to Panama – and during World War I, he served his country in Europe as an editor wearing an uniform. Stars and stripes. Immediately before the armistice, Ross met with a reporter named Jin Grant, who ultimately agreed to marry him although he was “the most amazing man I have ever met.”
Ross arrived at jazz in Manhattan as the last outside the city with a poker feeling of ambition. He and Grant settled in the hell kitchen, not far from the sidewalks on Hudson. One of the ideas that happened to them was to start a paper full of freight news. It was another to publish a collection of ordinary cover books. Or maybe they will start a kind of humor magazine. maybe That – which!
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Meanwhile, in March 1924, Ross joined the editorial team in a red -weekend called Right on. He and Grant, who was working in TimesSeveral nights have passed in a regular card game on the third floor of Algonquin Hotel, which became known as Thanatopsis Liteary and Inside Straight Club. Not everyone on the table was bankrupt. Grant Ross encouraged the Troyol Raul Flechman’s hole, who was the heir of bread wealth but was bored with a lot. Ross mentioned for the first time the idea of shipping, but there was no amount of yeast that would make Fleischmann rise to this proposal. After hearing Ross’s idea of Metropolitan Weekly, a “comic paper”, though, he was running the numbers-the economy was prosperous, and the postal rates were cheap-and delivered more than twenty-five thousand dollars.
In the coming weeks, Ross, Grant, and their circle enjoyed an area of names to create an emerging –Manhattanfor New York Weeklyfor New York Lifefor factfor Our town– Before other acquaintances, the journalist in Broadway John Tuhi came New Yorker. (Horace Grilli published a week called New Yorker From 1834 to 1841, but no one was amazed.) Glesonfor Smart groupfor American mercuryfor Harper weekly. They admired the comic tone puck and Punch. They were wary of imitation Vanity FairWho was publishing Djuna Barnes and Hokli: Highbrow.
In the magazine bulletin that Ross distributed to potential advertisers, the promise of “gaiety, rivalry and satire”. The problem was that early issues provided a little. It is a rare publication that begins with an immediate sense of focus. (One like this New York Book reviewThe first issue appeared in February 1963, during a long blow to the newspapers; table of contents –Norman Millerfor Robert Lillefor Elizabeth HardwickMary McCarthy, Irfing Hao, Dwit McDonald, WWDPO, Philip Rav, Who Auden-I was affected by what appeared to be a complete list of the so -called intellectuals in New York in a severe conversation.) Ross was in search of an editorial identity, “formula”, as it was called, escaped.
The first issues New Yorker Was the signature of: Photographer? Irvin Ri I presented a distorted logo and addresses of the story that are still distinctive; For Début case, FOP appeared from Irvin, which dates back to the Regency era, which studies the butterfly on the cover-and still does, in various forms, for anniversary issues. But the rest was largely hollow. The most fundamental contribution to the opening issue was “Maestrissimo!” Julio Gati CasazaMetropolitan opera opera. “I think we have nothing to fear”, ” Frank CronsildFounder Vanity FairAdvertise.
“We were not proud of our first issues New Yorker“Grant confessed in memoirs that it was published in 1968.” We were hoping that it would be an immediate and literary victory. Almost. Dorothy Parker To come to the office and write something. Parker replied that it fell, but “someone was using the pencil.”
It was a painful beginning – almost fatal. Soon after the launch, Ross sat on the poker table, and in one bombing session, he found himself in the hole for twenty thousand dollars – a fortune. “We felt annoyed,” Grant wrote. “I couldn’t think of anything we have left nothing but suicide.” Fortunately, reports, over time, “a quieter cycle has been determined.”
Fleischmann went to lunch with Ross and two others at Princeton Club, where they discussed the commentary of the summer, the better it is better to avoid the months in which the ads usually were thin. All this has ended there. Then, after attending a high -soul wedding, Fleischmann regained his confidence and conducted an additional investment from his family. Stability pays fruits. New Yorker Change the luck of liberation. Ross, journalist Marquis James, sent to Dayton, Tennessee, to cover Domain trial. His elegant transmission was a distinct departure from Jokey’s writing that had previously filled the magazine. In November, Ross achieved the first success in the newspapers, the social investigation Ellen Macai, “Why do we go to the cabarets-explain Debutanti?” Sales rose. New Yorker He was at work.
EB White, who started contributing in that first year and joined the employees in 1927, indicated that Ross started the magazine “more in contempt What has been published from any idea about how to improve it. ”He was making it as he went. But now, a week after week, New Yorker He expanded his self -definition. Ross liked to announce the gaps in his knowledge – “Who is Wila Kath?” – But he had a feeling of filling them with the employment of Breen Maour’s graduate named Catherine Angel, who, after a few years, married White. It helped bring a dangerous literary dimension to the magazine, publish some of the best poets of the day and encourage in the end Mary McCarthyfor Vladimir Nabokovfor John Chevverfor John AbedAnd many others to send a short imagination.
What Ross continued, a worldly man, his resistance sometimes was the world. Especially the world’s problems and complications. In 1929, depression began to consume the country. In its depths, a third of the city’s workforce was unemployed. However, the magazine remained at the time far from politics. Ross said: “Let’s let other magazines important,” Ross said. “Important”, for Russians, his biography, Thomas Konkel, wrote, “was an expression of” pale “. What prompted Ross, who is a veterans in the First World War, to open his magazine’s opening to a broader vision of the human experience was the Second World War. The pieces reached to Overflow: Molly Mantelin Ali Blitz. Janet Flander features from Hitler and Marshall Beetin. Aj Liebling on France liberation. John Hersi account Starring Lieutenant John F. Kennedy in the South Pacific. In the aftermath of the fighting, Rebecca West came to trial of war in the war Nuremberg Hersi’s masterpiece, “Hiroshima.”
Ross, who lived in a diet from excessive work and nicotine, gradually delivered more and more responsibility towards his deputy, William Sean. By the time that Ross died, in 1951, and behind by Sean, the fullness of the magazine – a mixture of humor, art, reports, criticism, poetry and imagination, as well as its sincerity, among other values, accuracy, clarity – there was a focus. New Yorker It is no longer a simple improvisation that it can be lost in the poker. The continuity of the goal and the practice has been created. Rachel Carson “Silent Spring”, “ From the summer of 1962, it was a source of inspiration for a different book such as John McVABill Mcpene, and Elizabeth Colbert. In November, James published Baldwin A message from an area in my mind, “ Which will be a readable presence in a lot of writing about race in the coming decades. Hana Arndt 1963 a report From the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, it launched moral and historical discussions that continue to this day. As is the case in the comic credit of that past, including Charles Adams James Thorber, Rose Rose Chasst and Calvin Trillin, so -and -so and Liling, inspired each foreign correspondent. When the Vietnam era brought fog of government disintegration and the number of installation body, the magazine was equipped with a book like Jonathan Shell, Francis Fitzgerald, to play a role as a clear witness.
