Harold Ross, as managing editor of Stars and Stripes for the American Expeditionary Force, had been commended by General Pershing and by the French government for conceiving a plan whereby 3,567 children left orphaned by the First World War were adopted by American soldiers serving in Europe. In 1920 Ross, now stateside and editor of The American Legion, urged the nation's more than nine thousand American Legion posts to readopt these same orphans brought home by American soldiers, apparently through financial contributions to their welfare. Ross's publication supplied the copy of this article to newspapers around the country. Ross would later take on the editorship of Judge and then, in 1925, found his own weekly newsmagazine, The New Yorker.
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Sunday, March 28, 2021
Saturday, March 27, 2021
Harold Ross and Jane Grant Wed
One hundred one years ago today New York Times reporter Jane Grant and American Legion Weekly editor-in-chief Harold Ross were married. The Times dutifully covered the nuptials of its first full-fledged female reporter after the announcement was made on April 12. Ross was then known for his work during the Great War on Stars and Stripes, which he had been assigned to from its founding, eventually becoming managing editor. In France, Alexander Woollcott had introduced the couple.
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Together Ross and Grant would go on to establish The New Yorker in 1925 with the financial backing of Raoul Fleischmann. Ross, of course, served as the magazine's editor while Grant worked at bringing investors and talent, notably Janet Flanner, on board. The magazine became a success but the marriage did not. The couple were divorced in 1929. Grant would publish her memoir Ross, The New Yorker and Me in 1968.
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