Aug 9, 2008
[Harold Ross, founding editor of The New Yorker], while serving on the editorial staff of Stars and Stripes during the First World War, was once placed under house arrest for arguing too vehemently with a superior officer over the proper placement of a comma.
—Louis Menand, “A Friend Writes: The Old New Yorker”, American Studies, 126

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