Word: nast
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Last September the Conde Nast empire, publisher of Vanity Fair, Vogue and Gourmet, among others, spent $40 million launching the upmarket Traveler for those who prefer to go where there are civil ways and no civil wars. Under former Times of London Editor Harold Evans, Traveler (circ. 853,490) boasts of its "muscle and vision" -- ratings of not only the world's best restaurants but also the worst, stories more analytical than promotional. Evans touts his magazine's "truth in travel" policy and sniffs at competitor Travel & Leisure as "one seamless travelogue, where all headwaiters...
There are also some troubles in paradise. Lawyers for Conde Nast's Traveler will be appearing in Manhattan federal court this week to respond to a lawsuit by National Geographic's quarterly Traveler charging that the overall appearance of Evans' magazine is strikingly similar to National Geographic's publication. At Trips, Ziegler denies that hard times in the parent clothing chain will trim the magazine's sails. And industry analysts still wonder if the market can soak up so many go-go competitors -- particularly since travel- related companies put only one-fifth of their ad budgets into travel magazines...
...time she divorced Brokaw, after six years of marriage, she was assured of a handsome settlement to help her take on the world. That she promptly did. At a dinner party in 1929, she asked her host, Publishing Magnate Conde Nast, for a job. He, taking her for a social butterfly, refused. She, unwilling to take no for an answer, simply went to the offices of his main magazine, Vogue, sat down at an unoccupied desk and announced that she was ready to start work writing captions. Within four years she was managing editor of Nast's Vanity Fair...
...Yorker Editor William Shawn, whose endless capacity for work and relentless curiosity helped fashion that magazine into a weekly mine of essay, fiction and humor. But last spring, after serving 35 years as editor, Shawn, 79, was ousted by the magazine's new owner, S.I. Newhouse of Conde Nast. Many thought Shawn's career was over. Not so. At the invitation of President Roger Straus Jr., Shawn is moving to Farrar, Straus & Giroux, one of the few remaining independent publishing houses, as an editor. "Roger Straus and I hope to work out an arrangement such as the one described," Shawn...
...devouring vast meals, acquiring power at the expense of the citizenry, puffing like a beached whale as he sports in the percales with a period piece named Augusta Cordell, estrous wife of a society figure. Renek never whitewashes the Boss, but he adds another dimension to the celebrated Thomas Nast drawings of Tweed as a vulture, a bloated moneybag and Falstaff. En route the author vigorously and accurately portrays his real hero: the city, with its teeming and angry slums, frantic mix of ethnic groups, riots, underworld schemers and high-level scandals, demonstrating that in New York, the more things...