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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Charles Coudert Nast, son of smart Publisher Condé Nast (Vanity Fair, Vogue, House & Garden); to Charlotte Babcock Brown, Manhattan scioness; in Manhattan...
Editors and publishers of the women's press, (Harper's Bazar, Good Housekeeping, Delineator, McCall's, Ladies' Home Journal, etc.) bit their nails and stamped their feet. Again they had been done in by Condé* Nast, sleek publisher of Vogue. Especially must it have pained Vogue's glossy rival, Harper's Bazar (a Hearst product), to learn that Mr. Nast, than whose technique for commingling business with social activities nothing smoother was ever evolved, was to be the first lecturer in a course on present-day fashions in the fine arts department...
Frenchmen were vexed last week when thieves entered the Musee Condé at Chantilly and stole three million dollars' worth of jewels belonging to the State. Most valued of the stolen gems is "the Grand Condé," a pink heart-shaped diamond measuring more than half an inch across...
Mode-arbiter Condé Nast made quaint obeisance this month to Quakery by decreeing as first "special issue" of Vanity Fair ever published, a Sesquicentennial Number. Though the Sesquicentennial achieves little prominence except its mention on the cover, an arraignment of Manhattan's last theatrical season in 67 compressed capsules of reproof give to the issue an appropriate Quaker tone. Mr. George Jean Nathan, a critic steeped in theatre lore, discerning though scurrilous, able though loud, composed the 67 indictments with nice variety of language. A few follow...
Sued for Divorce. Condé Nast, publisher and chief owner of Vogue, Vanity Fair, House and Garden, Royal, Children's Vogue, Vogue Pattern Book, by Clarisse Coudert Nast, daughter of Charles Coudert, member of the law firm of Coudert Bros., one of the oldest international law firms in the U. S.; in Paris. They have lived apart for some time...