Word: nast
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...mail circulating around the Net, entitled "My Carreer as Editor of The New Yorker," Slate editor Michael Kinsley says Conde Nast chief Si Newhouse initially asked him to edit the weekly. But in a late-night phone call the magazine mogul retracted the offer, asking Kinsley to say he'd withdrawn his name. Kinsley, a former Crossfire host, at first agreed to keep quiet about the now-you-see-it, now-you-don't almost job, but then, Kinsley writes in his e-mail, "on reflection... I decided I was not inclined to do him the favor of not discussing...
...WALLACE, editor of Conde Nast Traveler: "I will miss the Irish punt. There's nothing more satisfying than buying a pint with a punt...
Graduates of RPC, including Steve Fliorio, president and chief executive officer of Conde Nast Publications, will attend a gala party celebrating the anniversary, to be held at New York's Pierpont Morgan Library...
...Hingis has won more money so far this year than such athletes as Tiger Woods and Pete Sampras. The Women's Professional Fastpitch softball league, concentrated in the Southeast, has been pulling in fans and TV viewers in surprising numbers. Two new magazines (SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S Women/Sport and Conde Nast's Sports for Women) will soon be competing for readership...
...violinist. Clare and her older brother David were raised by their mother Anna, who, Morris tells us, supported them by part-time work as a call girl and believed that Clare?s surest way to escape from poverty was by marrying money. She found work with the publisher Cond? Nast, initially at Vogue but more brilliantly at Vanity Fair, where she became managing editor. One of her first contributions to the magazine was a flip little profile of Time?s co-founder Henry R. Luce. They married in 1935. His magazines prospered, including Life, which she virtually invented...