It was on this day (January 21) in 1952 that William Shawn became editor of The New Yorker, succeeding the magazine's famous founder, Harold Ross. He held the post for the next three and a half decades.
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January 21, 2012
60 years ago today, a New Yorker editor began a 35-year run
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