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...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...
...just launched Victoria, a glossy, evocation of the Victorian era complete with recipes for potpourris. Though the magazines contribute an estimated 65% of the company's net profits, some face increasingly aggressive rivals. Hearst's Harper's Bazaar, the tony fashion journal that has run second to Conde Nast's Vogue, is now being challenged by the frisky, well-designed Elle, an American cousin of the French original. House Beautiful is losing ad pages to its onetime equal, House & Garden, which has gone upscale by offering lavish picture spreads and admiring articles by well-known writers about the residences...
...last week The New Yorker proved that it was not inviolate after all. Its board of directors agreed to sell the magazine to Samuel I. Newhouse Jr., 57, head of a family owned publishing empire that includes 29 newspapers, the Conde Nast magazines (among them: Vogue, Vanity Fair and Gentlemen's Quarterly) and Random House book publishers. Newhouse offered a generous $142 million--$200 a share for the publication's more than 700,000 outstanding shares--and agreed to shelter the newly acquired property as a separate company under his corporate umbrella. Still, the announcement unsettled those who work...