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NEW YORKER,
THE
NEW YORKER,
THE.
Harold Ross (1892
–
1951) founded The
New Yorker
as a weekly magazine in New York City in 1925. Ross had quit high school to become a reporter, and during World War I he edited the
Stars and Stripes,
a military newspaper. The
New Yorker
was his attempt to create a "reflection in word and picture of metropolitan
life
…
with gaiety, wit, and satire." It was highly successful, weathering the Great Depression when many of its older competitors did not. Initially a humor magazine for urban sophisticates or those who wanted to become such, it dealt with social life and cultural events in Manhattan. The magazine quickly broadened its scope to ...