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...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...
...city and state whether or not they ever built. That kitty allowed planners to start condemning properties and evicting what they saw as undesirable tenants. Developers still have the right to erect their office towers--ground has already been broken on a building that will house the Conde Nast magazine empire--but the Johnson-Burgee designs have been chucked...
Those promises at least partly came true. Cantwell became a successful magazine editor at Conde Nast and a member of the editorial board of the New York Times. Appropriate to the setting, her prose might best be described as "racing." It dashes through the offices of Mademoiselle and Vogue. It darts into the dress stores where she acquired the right coloration. It pauses for the dinner parties at which her cooking graduated from veal wrapped around Jones sausages to beef Wellington. Inevitably, it lands her in a shrink's office, where she tried to come to terms with the ghost...
Cantwell populates the Conde Nast hothouses with a sharp sense of the pretensions by which publishing people define their territory. There was the society editor who was "a friend to the rich, a brute to her researcher"; the entertainment editor who sat behind an "enormous mahogany desk, taking phone calls from Marlene Dietrich and Truman Capote"; the editor in chief who addressed long letters to the staff with "Dearly Beloved Family...