Word: cond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Same Fashion, Same Formula. To land Mitzie her prize present, Sam ("Mr. S.I.") Newhouse operated in the same forthright fashion that he has used for four decades to collect an unusual group of 14 newspapers and five TV and radio stations. Just a fortnight ago, Newhouse heard that Condé Nast President and Publisher Iva Sergei ("Pat") Voidato-Patcévitch, 58, was willing to sell his option to buy controlling interest in the company, which he got last fall from Britain's Amalgamated Press. Hard hit by recession cutbacks in ads, Condé Nast Publications lost...
Publisher Newhouse will use the same principle with Condé Nast that underlies his newspaper empire: a high degree of local autonomy. Mitzie Newhouse may have an occasional casual chat with an editor, and Mr. S.I. will keep his sharp eye on the ledger, but Condé Nast will continue to be run on the same fashion-plating formula by Publisher Patcévitch and his staffers...
...advertised in the Hollywood Reporter, the House in Palm Springs, Calif, had everything: "Elegantly furn., new, modern, 3 brs plus 3 baths & guest house. Re-frige., air cond., heated and filt. pool. Artistically landscaped and compl. walled, unsurpassed view, exclu. south end location. Immed. poss." Sale price: $57,500. Owners: Eddie and Debbie...
...high point in the art of calendar-making, if not in science, is the Zodiac Man (opposite) drawn for Jean de France, Due de Berry, between 1413-16 by the famed manuscript illuminators, the Limbourg brothers. Now one of the treasures of France's Condé Museum and a magnificent compendium of astrological lore, it was meant for the use of physicians, giving the proper time for bloodletting, purgatives, medication and even bathing. Showing a universe divided into quadrants composed of the qualities (moist, dry, cold and warm), and put in harmony with man's organs and appendages...