Word: nast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Iva Sergei ("Pat") Voidato-Patcevitch, 63, president of Conde Nast Publications (Vogue, Glamour) and Manhattan Socialite Cheseborough ( Chessy") Amory, 50, his companion at many a charity ball over the past two social seasons; he for the second time, she for the fourth; in Manhattan...
Along with the overall gain, the statistics contained some interesting sidelights. Biggest individual ad-volume gainer was Conde Nast's House & Garden, which climbed 47%, to $8,165,669. As usual, LIFE led the field in total revenue, with $140,565,848, comfortably ahead of Look's $76 million and the Saturday Evening Post's $66.5 million. The Reader's Digest, which began accepting ads in its domestic edition eight years ago, maintained its steady ad-revenue growth by registering a 25% increase...
...invested in 1922 for a slice of the tiny, money-losing Staten Island Advance, he has spent some $122 million collecting properties that now include not only his newspapers but three radio stations, six TV stations and two magazine publishing firms, a 66% interest in Conde Nast and Street & Smith. By conservative estimate, these possessions are worth $250 million today. They produce a handsome annual gross in excess of $125 million...
Once a year the Newhouses fly to Europe, where Mitzi, in her new capacity as wife of the proprietor of Conde Nast, makes the rounds of the fashion houses and takes a certain satisfaction in the fact that the arbiters of style now employ models in her size (which is 3). Within three weeks her husband is bored, and they go home...
What's wrong with symbolism? It was a pretty good tool in the hands of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Nast and is today in Richard Q. Yardley's wonderful work [for the Baltimore...