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DAVENPORT  \nCLIFT ON FADIMAN·GILBERT HIGHET·JOHN P.MARQUAND  \nBook-of-the-Month Club Selections represent the unanimous choice of this Board  \n5  \n\"It must have been trying to work for HaroldRoss,but to read about him and his menagerie is simply de-lightful,\"reports Gilbert Highet.James Thurber was one ofthe closest friends of the eccentric founder and editor ofThe New Yorker,and is perhaps its most famous con-tributor.These are his fond recollections of a curmudgeonwho was \"imperfectly educated,\"whose mind was \"unclut-tered by culture,\"who looked like“a carelessly carried um-brella”and who was,says Thurber,\"the most remarkableman I have ever known and the greatest editor.”Theamusement is heightened by thirty Thurber drawings.  \nJA novel with two heroines,\"both of whomcan be termed undisciplined,even by our tolerant nationalmatriarchy,\"writes John P.Marquand in his report.One isan arrogant grande dame;the other “her beautiful and drift-ing niece...unhappily married to a stuffed shirt.\"Out ofthe interplay of their lives and the contrasts of their genera-tions,the author has written what Mr.Marquand describes asan“absorbing,finely constructed story…one that anyone canread with thought and pleasure....The Third Choice alone,quite apart from such of Mrs.Janeway's earlier successes asThe Walsh Girls,marks her as a distinguished novelist.\"  \nFRONT COVER:ORNAMENTAL DESION by Jean Pillement(1728-1808),courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art  \n# The Years with Ross\n\nBY JAMES THURBER  \nHE was homely.He was awkward inmanner and in speech.He was imper-fectly educated.He was often intellectuallyand aesthetically obtuse.He was seldomkempt and never couth.Yet he created amagazine which,for many thousands ofpeople,became the very epitome of so-phistication.The man was Harold Ross,and the magazine was The New Yorker.  \nHAROLD WALLACE ROSS  \nHe was a great editor.Few people knew him well.But even when you knewhim,it was very difficult to understand how that irritable,saturnine,provincialcharacter could have invented and maintained a periodical whose very nameimplied a brittle and urbane distinction,and whose mascot was a cool,elegantdandy scrutinizing a butterfly through a quizzing glass.  \nSome editors are mild,companionable men who get on well with nearlyeverybody,who can smell a story almost anywhere and extract work from theirwriters by flattery and persuasion.Harold Ross worried all the time,hatedmeeting people,was dismally unbusinesslike (one of his secretaries robbed himof $70,000)and was usually angry with half his staff and suspicious of theother half.Yet he gathered round him a group of brilliantly original men andwomen who stimulated one another by contact and competition,and heirritated and bullied them into producing large quantities of excellent work.  \nMany of them might have frittered away their talents,if it had not beenfor Ross's high standards and provocative manner.They would have talkedtheir ideas away over the lunch table,drowned their wits in martinis,orsmothered them in self-distrust and pessimism.Some would have become toodiffuse in their writing,haphazard and careless.Ross demanded the best fromthem all,and surprisingly often he got it.And what a staff he brought together!Alexander Woollcott,H.L.Mencken,Ogden Nash,S.J.Perelman,Robert  \nBACHRACH  \nBenchley,Clifton Fadiman,E.B.White,Dorothy Parker,Ralph Ingersoll:a dazzling group of talents.And think of the artists:Peter Arno,Helen Hokin-son,Gluyas Williams,Mary Petty and James Thurber—although Ross couldnot at first believe that Thurber was an artist at all,then printed his drawingsunder protest,and was long baffied both by their popularity(\"It's a fad of theEnglish,\"he growled)and by their enigmatic subjects,some of which puzzleThurber himself.  \nRoss was baffied by many things.He could n","cbCaimSJarT8duXY","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimSJarT8duXY","pdf",2383734,28,"English","# The Years with Ross\n## Harold Ross and The New 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