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That Vanity Fair, one of the most celebrated avant-garde magazines of the 1920s, would once again be a trendsetter was exactly what Newhouse and Conde Nast Editorial Director Alexander Liberman hoped when they revived the long- defunct magazine in 1983. But after one of the most heralded debuts in recent publishing history, the new magazine collapsed under the weight of its own pretension. Eleven months and two editors later, Newhouse and Liberman hired Brown, an Oxford graduate whose spunky editing had turned around the British satirical monthly Tatler...
Meanwhile, House & Garden, which had won two National Magazine Awards in 1984, was losing momentum. After replacing the publisher and art director, Newhouse and Liberman sent for Wintour. A mediocre student who is said to have lost all interest in academics after a teacher upbraided her for wearing a miniskirt, Wintour never went to college and instead plunged into the world of fashion. She arrived in the U.S. in 1976 and put in stints at Viva and New York, before being named creative director of American Vogue in 1983 and editor of the British edition in 1986. In London...
While working on his dissertation at MIT, Liberman ventured into the Yard one quiet fall day in 1972, and met a friend for lunch in the Dudley House cafeteria in Lehman Hall, once the center for many SDS sessions...
...middle of a sandwich, Liberman looked up to see Thomas Crooks, master of Dudley House, peering over at him. Crooks took him aside and politely reminded him that the University ruling prevented him "from ever setting foot on University property again." (Crooks says he does not remember telling any students to leave, and calls such statements "silly...
...Liberman has a reputation in linguistics, and University scholars have unknowingly invited him several times to speak at linguistics conferences on the Harvard campus. He has accepted all such speaking engagements, and so far, he says, "they have not called in the University patrol...