Harold Ross Quote

The New Yorker will be the magazine that is not edited for the old lady in Dubuque.


Prospectus for the magazine, 1924. According to Time Magazine, Volume 19 (1932), p. 21: "What was meant by this was that The New Yorker's editors were minded to be untrammelled by considerations of deference to the small-town old-lady turn of mind."


The New Yorker will be the magazine that is not edited for the old lady in Dubuque.

The New Yorker will be the magazine that is not edited for the old lady in Dubuque.

The New Yorker will be the magazine that is not edited for the old lady in Dubuque.

The New Yorker will be the magazine that is not edited for the old lady in Dubuque.