The Slaughterhouse-Five author's ill-fated stint during the magazine's infancy was a brief one. Vonnegut joined the staff as a young writer and his first assignment was to write a caption about a horse hurdling a fence. After several days of frustration, he left the office for good, leaving behind a leaf of paper with one sentence in his typewriter: "The f---ing horse jumped over the f---ing fence."

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