Career
As soon as she graduated college, Long promptly ran off to New York and began making a name for herself.
She started at Vogue and then went to Vanity Fair but Long found her niche - and with it, fame and glory - when Harold Ross snagged her away for his severely suffering new magazine, The New Yorker
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