New Yorkers

March 11, 2013
Posted by Jay Livingston

Ben Yagoda has a note on language, a hell of a note, on the disappearance of the phrase “a hell of a note.”  (It’s in the Chronicle, here.) Yagoda says
I seem to recall that it was a favorite expression of Harold Ross, the founding editor of The New Yorker
The Chronicle article included  picture of Ross, and while I don’t recall having seen it before, there was something familiar about it, something that reminded me of another legendary New Yorker.


(This was the best I could find at Google Images.  A good still shot of Dr. Van Nostrand would have been better.)

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