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However, you omitted what to many must stand out as his most notable accomplishment. This consisted in locating and employing editorial talent, either inexperienced or undeveloped in other publishing jobs, but under Nast's influence later to become nationally famous. There were Bruce Barton, Frank Crowninshield, Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Clare Boothe Luce and Edmund Wilson, to mention only a few; while the bright young women copywriters have overflowed into Fifth Avenue's swankiest shops to such an extent as to have definitely influenced the whole school of current department-store advertising...
...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 broke. His last decade showed...
...These are the British names given to the destroyers Herndon, Crowninshield, Cowell, A. P. Upshur, Shubrick, Bailey, Yarnall. Some other British rechristenings: Thatcher into Niagara, Mackenzie into Annapolis, Hunt into Broadway...
...prized DeGaussing rig of electrical cables, to foil magnetic mines. Aboard each vessel were some 60 U. S. Navy men and officers (about half the normal crew). They were detailed to deliver the ships (probably to Halifax), break in British crews. By week's end the Wood, Welles, Crowninshield, Buchanan, Herndon -eight destroyers all told-had left Boston, still flying the U. S. flag and the U. S. Navy's union jack (but not the commission pennants which mark ships in active U. S. service...
...they should bear the names of British heroes of the U. S. Colonial and Revolutionary period. But the shrewdest suggestion-and one which would please sailors who think name-changing is bad luck-was that they should keep their present names: quiet U. S. heroes like Herndon, Welles, Buchanan, Crowninshield, Abbot, Conner. This would point up the spectacular cooperation which the deal represented...