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Ralph Ingersoll (PM publisher)

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a few months after the magazine commenced publication; Ross inadvertently spilled an inkwell on Ingersoll's new light suit (various sources claim it was either white or pale gray) during the job interview, then, in embarrassment, offered him the job. As Ingersoll left his office, he heard Ross mumble
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ran no advertising, and editorials did not appear every day; when they did, they were signed by an individual, initially Ingersoll himself, instead of anonymously coming from the paper itself. Sometimes these editorials took over the front page. His first editorial took a forthright stand on
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It has recently been suggested, based on research, that Ingersoll may have been the originator, chief advocate and mission planner of the tactical deception unit formed by the US Army during the war and deployed in the
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and its business. The scrutiny that Ingersoll gave Ross and his employees, which included mention of their foibles and salaries, initiated a feud between Ross and
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into the military; when he returned after the war, he found a paper that was less lively and well-written than it had been under his leadership, and with the pro-
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writing at cross purposes. The paper never quite recovered and in June, 1948, with PM on the brink of folding, Field sold a majority interest to attorney
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started on June 18, 1940 with $ 1.5 million of capital, a fraction of the $ 10 million that Ingersoll initially sought. Unlike in usual U.S. practice,
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The papers' first year was an overall success, although the paper was in some financial trouble: its circulation of 100,000–200,000 was insufficient.
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to his secretary: "Jesus Christ, I hire anybody." According to his biographer, Roy Hoopes, Ingersoll "was one of the original guiding spirits of
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had become the paper's funder; quite unusually, he was a "silent partner" in this continually money-losing undertaking.
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in California, Arizona and Mexico. In 1923 he went to New York with the intention of becoming a writer.
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in 1982 after he had bought his father out in a deal that left them no longer on speaking terms.
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in 1936, which lampooned both Luce and "Timestyle", the inverted writing style for which
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known formally as the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops and colloquially as the
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McFadden, Robert D. (March 9, 1985). "Ralph Ingersoll, Editor and Publisher".
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In the 1950s Ingersoll acquired and managed several newspapers. His company,
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where he was managing editor from 1925 to 1930. He had been hired by the
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Ingersoll later wrote numerous books about his service in World War II.
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It ceased publication eight months later, in February, 1949.
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publications, and devised the formula of business magazine
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was (in)famous. Luce retaliated by having caricaturist
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20th-century American newspaper publishers (people)
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New Haven, Connecticut
Miami Beach, Florida
PM
New York City
left-wing
Chicago
Marshall Field III
Hotchkiss School
Yale University
Sheffield Scientific School
mining engineer
New York American
The New Yorker
Harold Ross
Time Inc.
Time-Life
Fortune
Henry Luce
Wolcott Gibbs
Al Hirschfeld
Joseph Stalin
World War II
Europe
Nazi Germany
Fascist Italy
instant book
fixup
Marshall Field III
drafted
communist

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