Word: nast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Patterns & Paris. Vogue's audience was as small as its view of the world until Conde Nast, who helped give Collier's its start, came east from St. Louis to buy the magazine and its 14,000 circulation in 1909. Elegant, wealthy Publisher Nast poured money into his new property, changed it from a weekly to a fortnightly and gradually expanded its coverage beyond the confines of Park Avenue and Newport. Edna Chase rose like a rocket through the magazine. By 1914 she was editor (at the age of 37) and began playing to the rising U.S. upper...
...Poynters started CQ in 1945 after a hitch of wartime information service in Washington. Both were old journalistic hands: Nelson as editor of the St. Peters burg (Fla.) Times, owned by his family; Henrietta as foreign editor for Conde Nast in Europe. They started Congressional Quarterly, says Henrietta, "when we found that, though Washington had more than 1,000 reporters, nobody was really doing a job on Congress...
...exhibition of a crowd of contemporary artists is bound to include some lemons, and a few canvases at the Guggenheim look not so much painted as beaten with muddy sticks. A contrastingly pristine nothing is Two Circles, by the art director for Conde Nast magazines, Alexander Liberman. Consisting simply of two shiny black disks on a white panel, it is as chic as two black eyes have become in cafe society...