Happy Birthday, Harold Ross

Today--November 6--was the birthday, in 1892, of Harold Ross, founder and original editor of The New Yorker.

Ross wrote "Magazines are about 85% luck. All an editor can do is have a net handy to grab any talent that comes along, and maybe cast a little bread on the waters."

The New Yorker was published first in 1925, and is one of the few magazines, if not the only magazine, printed that year to have survived.

And not merely survived, but to have flourished, and become the highest standard of magazine excellence.

If there is an Algonquin roundtable in the Great Beyond, Ross will have a seat at it. And fine company, as the martinis are poured.