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...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...
Divorced. Iva Sergei Voidato ("Pat") Patcevitch, 47, dapper, Russian-born president of Condé Nast Publications (Vogue, Glamour): by Nadejda Gelli-brand Patcevitch, beauteous onetime Vogue (of London) staffer; after fifteen years of marriage, no children; in Reno...
With these, Publisher Grammer has emerged as something of a teenagers' Condá Nast. Pic's new format may do as much for him in the young men's field...
Smart, promotion-minded Condé Nast bought the magazine in 1909 with money saved as Collier's advertising director, made it a semimonthly. His simple advertisingman's formula: bring together people who want to buy something and people who want to sell. That the formula was successful is evident in the roll call of Condé Nast products. Today C. N. Publications mothers, besides Vogue, House & Garden, Glamour (fashions for the younger set), British Vogue, the Vogue Pattern Book, Vogue patterns, Hollywood patterns. A French edition was suspended in 1940 when the Germans got within gunshot of Paris...
Posies for Horses. Since Condé Nast's death last year, C. N.'s president and publisher has been polished, handsome, Russian-born Iva Sergei Voidato ("Pat") Patcévitch, 43, onetime Wall Street analyst and a smart business operator with the Nast promotional flair...