Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harold Ross has a highly combustible disposition, a scornful disdain of public relations, an unfailing nose for what he dislikes and a sure eye for what he wants: the easy, lounging air that the New Yorker affects. Last week, a former employee named Russell Maloney tried to reconcile the shock-haired man with his brilliantined product. Maloney worked for Ross for eleven years and resigned at last because he "felt rather middle-aged and pooped...
What makes an editorial job on the weekly so desperate, said Maloney, is "the glum fact of the New Yorker's perfection; because perfection, in the mind of Harold Ross, is not a goal or an ideal, but something that belongs to him, like his watch or his hat." In 22 years, this has enormously complicated the once casual synthesis of the magazine: "Ross is no longer content with a profile; he requests also a family history, bank reference, social security number, urinalysis, catalogue of household possessions, names of all living relatives, business connections, political affiliations, as well...
Along the way, Maloney sketches a few remembered glimpses of Ross at work. At the "art meeting" where the New Yorker's famed cartoons are bought, there is a pad, pencil, ashtray and knitting needle at each place-the last "for pointing at faulty details in pictures. Ross rejects pictures firmly and rapidly, perhaps one every ten seconds. 'Nah . . . nah . . . nah.' . . . Now and then Ross gets lost in the intricacies of perspective. 'Where am / supposed to be?' he will unhappily inquire. ... If nobody can say exactly where Ross is supposed to be, out the picture...
Already Moose Jaw's ambitious. and wealthy young M.P., Ross Thatcher, was capitalizing noisily on the manifest violation of civil rights. He had protested to Prime Minister Mackenzie King against the attempt to "starve the Japs out of the camp," and had followed with a ringing speech: "Let these Canadians be treated as Canadians by Canadians. Let the Government have the courage to admit a wrong and right...
...ROSS A. MCFARLAND...