Monday, December 2, 2013

The Boys in Advertising

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Office Feud

“Feuds did not threaten The New Yorker. The only feud I recall was the running battle between the editorial department and the advertising department. This was largely a one-sided affair, with the editorial department lobbing an occasional grenade into the enemy’s lines just on general principles, to help them remember to stay out of sight. [Editor Harold] Ross was determined not to allow his magazine to be swayed, in the slightest degree, by the boys in advertising. As far as I know, he succeeded.”

—E.B. White (1899-1985), author and longtime New Yorker contributor, in “E. B. White, The Art of the Essay No. 1,” interviewed by George Plimpton and Frank H. Crowther, The Paris Review, No. 48, Fall 1969


 • Editorial Comment: Fusillades of thesari?

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.
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