Word: nast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sumptuously chic offices of the Condé Nast Publications in Manhattan a birthday was celebrated this week. It was the 50th anniversary of Vogue, a brilliantined 35? slick devoted to expensive living and women's fashions. Off the presses came a fat issue reviewing five decades of styles...
Crowninshield's persistent plumping for modern art in Vanity Fair at first alarmed Publisher Condé Nast and a good section of his office force. Nast later wrote, in an office memorandum: ". . . In time, however . . . we derived a very considerable benefit from having published such. In fact, a portfolio of our prints . . . scored so great a success that we netted a handsome profit...
...sing it. In 1912, at a Weber & Fields reunion, when Lillian was 51 and over 170 lb., she was asked to do it again. As she broke, monumentally, into Come Down, My Evenin' Star, an audience including Arthur Brisbane, William Randolph Hearst, Diamond Jim Brady, Condé Nast and Charles Dana Gibson blubbered frankly over its boiled shirts...
Somehow Mr. Nast seemed to have had the ability to develop the best of those who entered his employ to a degree not to be found in any other magazine-publishing enterprise of our generation...
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...