Word: allison
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What Schaire proudly describes as the "little magazine that could" was born in 1978, but took its current form in 1984, after it was purchased by Texas Publisher Wick Allison. He set out to create an art magazine that would appeal not just to art insiders but to the general public as well. With its glossy new look, Art & Antiques has seen its circulation jump from 23,000 to 98,000. Still, seat-of-the-pants remains the typical mode of operation. The bare-bones staff of 27 routinely works a seven-day week, and sometimes even dresses...
Besides the conflicts between a handsome but hopelessly starchy President and his smoldering wife Sadie, Quinn recounts the passions and jealousies of Allison, an ambitious reporter, and her lover and professional rival Des, a blunt newsmagazine bureau chief. "Jesus, I don't know why I'm so horny all of a sudden," Des says. "I guess nothing turns me on like a good story." To Washingtonians, the two sound suspiciously like Quinn and her husband Ben Bradlee, the executive editor of the Washington Post and a former Newsweek bureau chief. "Both Allison and Sadie are partly me," Quinn confesses. "Some...
Former Director of Public Relations Naomi Chase transferred to another department within the Kennedy School after the controversy, during which students and faculty protested that Meese was unqualified for a public service award. Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62 eventually apologized for his decision to award the medal to Meese and said that part of the misunderstanding surrounding the medal was a press secretary "learning her job by fire...
...veteran press secretary and graduate of the Kennedy School, Steve will be a valuable resource to all reporters seeking information about the school," Allison said of Singer in a news release Wednesday...
This story is based on reporting by Kristin A. Goss, Laura S. Kohl and Allison L. Jernow...