Word: cond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Condè Nast died (TiME, Sept. 28), his last wish was to name his successor. Last week Condè Nast Publications' board of directors gladly confirmed his choice: 42-year-old Iva Sergei Voidato Patcèvitch, Nast's executive assistant since 1928. Conde Nast editors remain unchanged...
...Condè Nast met Patcèvitch, appropriately, at a swank Manhattan party. Young Patcèvitch, with his lean, cultured face and Vogueish good manners, was on his rapid way up in a Wall Street brokerage house. He had been in the U.S. only since 1923. Son of a White Russian civil governor, he was educated at the Imperial Naval Academy, served as liaison officer between the Russians and British on the Eastern Front. During the Russian Revolution he went to work for the Near East Relief in Persia and Turkey. There he met Americans who gave him valuable...
...Condé Nast was not born to fashion. He was born in New York of a French mother and German father, grew up in St. Louis, went to Georgetown University, where he managed the baseball team. Classmate Robert Collier hired him to write advertising for Collier's. Nine years later, age 35, risen to business manager, he had built up the magazine's circulation, fattened its skinny advertising, and was making $50,000 a year. That was when he quit...
...lonesome office of its advertising manager"-then. A decade later it had plenty of friends of just the right kind. It ranked second to Satevepost in ads, had sister editions in Paris, London and Buenos Aires. It also had a sophisticated brother, Vanity Fair, the editing of which Condé Nast turned over to Frank Crowninshield, the town's wittiest connoisseur of art and letters. They were a team. Nast built a 30-acre printing plant at Greenwich, Conn. In the boom he also went into the stock-market.* And just when he was ready to retire, he went...
Always a keen student of the news. Condé Nast the man was strongly anti-Nazi and interventionist before Pearl Harbor. When the U.S. went to war, Nast the publisher took the lead in showing how patriotism can be smart and smartness patriotic. None could do it with so sure a touch...