Harold Ross

She ran with intellectuals, entrepreneurs and celebrities alike; among her many wooers were New Yorker founder Harold Ross, aviation magnate Howard Hughes and actor Cary Grant.

Ginger Rogers at 100: Even with Astaire, always taking the lead Sarah Kaufman 2011

In 1939, New Yorker editor Harold Ross recruited Mollie Panter-Downes, an English novelist and short-story writer, to contribute a regular feature for the magazine called "Letter From London."

Five Best 2010

In his same foreword, Gopnik is right to cite The New Yorker founder and institutional visionary Harold Ross, who was passionate about cartoons from the magazine's 1925 inception.

'Riffs Best Books of 2010: THE NEW YORKER's Bob Mankoff offers a comic window into the year Michael Cavna 2010

The Algonquin was a favorite, of course, of the famed Algonquin Round Table, the "vicious circle" of Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Harold Ross, George S. Kaufman and other writers and critics.

Cocktails that complete me: Old Pal and Algonquin Jason Wilson 2010

"Harold Ross intuitively recognized that a good cartoon ought to be a little window on the world," Gopnik writes.

'Riffs Best Books of 2010: THE NEW YORKER's Bob Mankoff offers a comic window into the year Michael Cavna 2010

In 1939, New Yorker editor Harold Ross recruited Mollie Panter-Downes, an English novelist and short-story writer, to contribute a regular feature for the magazine called "Letter From London."

Five Best 2010

Grant, Jane, 1892-1972, born in Missouri grew up in Girard, andco-founded The New York Times with her first husband Harold Ross cant tell me they dont love the times…

San Francisco imposes sanctions on Arizona 2010

In 1939, New Yorker editor Harold Ross recruited Mollie Panter-Downes, an English novelist and short-story writer, to contribute a regular feature for the magazine called "Letter From London."

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But joy soon turned to anguish when the editor, Harold Ross, pointed out some inconsistencies and suggested both cuts and rewrites.

Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

In addition to the Vanity Fair trio, the “Algonquin Round Table” included newspapermen Alexander Woollcott and Harold Ross (who would found the New Yorker magazine in 1925) and, in subsequent years, edna ferber, Harpo Marx, Tallulah Bankhead, and other notable figures in literary and theatrical circles.

Dorothy Rothschild Parker. 2009