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...result was disaster. Louis chose a daughter of the Prince de Condé, whose family ran to madness as some families run to fat. Condé had a habit of barking convulsively-though at court he usually managed to stuff his mouth with a silk drapery when he felt such an attack coming...
Publisher Samuel Irving Newhouse, 64, has good reason for believing that journalism is far from a dying profession. After four decades of shrewd trading (TIME, April 6), his flourishing empire is worth about $175 million, includes 14 newspapers, five TV and three radio stations, Street & Smith Publications Inc. and Condé Nast Publications Inc. (Vogue, House & Garden, Glamour). To keep it flourishing, the empire at his death will go into a nonprofit educational trust, the Newhouse Foundation; the business will be run by his two sons, S.I. Jr., 32, and Don, 30. This week the first fruit of the plan...
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...