The New Yorker Launches: A New Era in Journalism
Harold Ross promised a magazine "not edited for the old lady in Dubuque." The first issue of *The New Yorker* had 32 pages and lost $8,000. Ross was a high school dropout who'd edited *Stars and Stripes* during World War I. His wife Jane Grant put up half the money from her journalism salary. The magazine almost folded three times in its first year. By 1935, it was profitable. Today it's published continuously for 99 years without missing a week.
February 21, 1925
101 years ago
What Else Happened on February 21
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Pierre de Tarentaise est élu 183e pape sous le nom d'Innocent V.
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