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...Died. Condé Nast, 68; of a heart attack ; in his Park Avenue penthouse apartment in Manhattan...
...exquisite 30-room penthouse on Park Avenue death came last week to Condé Nast. He was 68; an amiable host; as publisher of Vogue, House & Garden, et al., a superlative technician of the publishing world. For a generation he was the man from whom millions of American women got most of their ideas, directly or indirectly, about the desirable American standard of living...
...index to the variety of his taste. There he entertained the same people for whom he published Vogue. There to his elaborate dinners, dances, cocktail parties, came socialites, Hollywoodites, Broadwayites, statesmen, royalty. The star of a Broadway opening was as thrilled by an after-theater party at Condé Nast's as she was by the first-night applause. The apartment which he himself planned to the last detail was so arranged he could entertain 100 cocktail guests on the roof, a dinner party of 50, another couple of hundred in the ballroom, all at the same time. Amidst...
...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...
...poems about Woodrow Wilson; once she ran away from home, and worked for two months making paper flowers for Dennison & Co. in New York; she has seen much of the world (two large exceptions: South America, Russia). She began her career as $20-a-week editorial assistant on the Condé Nast publications, and rose in three years to become managing editor of Vanity Fair. She is married to Henry R. Luce, editor of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE; she has a daughter, Ann Brokaw, 18, by her first marriage to Socialite George T. Brokaw; she has a cool certainty...