Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brilliant piece of journalism. The New Yorker's editors had practically stumbled into it. Originally, they planned to print Hersey's report in four articles. Then able, shy co-managing editor Bill Shawn, suggested running the whole thing at once. It took a while to convince Harold Ross, the New Yorker's terrible-tempered editor, a man given to juvenile and profane tantrums, and intuitive, often shrewd judgments. Ross is convinced that everyone on his staff but himself is in danger of going holy. One factor helped decide him: most of the magazine's regular departments...
...anything about the cover which incongruously showed a picnic scene (New Yorker covers are made up four months in advance). But one editor suddenly thought: "My God, how would a guy feel, buying the magazine intending to sit in a barber's chair and read it!" Ross ordered a white band around the 40,000 New York newsstand copies, warning readers that there was nothing inside but Hiroshima...
...Editor Ross, admitting to having gotten a little religion himself, announced that he was ready to do it again if something as good came along...
White House Physician, by Vice-Admiral Ross T. Mclntyre...
...despite Press Secretary Charlie Ross's protestations, the President's own careful silence, no one missed the political implications. One of the first men the President spoke to as he arrived in Independence was Kansas City Boss Jim Pendergast (nephew of the notorious Tom), who had reluctantly broken an old political alliance to back the President's candidate...