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...political corruption. Son of an Irish chairmaker, Tweed got into politics as the nose-busting foreman of the Americus, or Big Six, volunteer fire company. On the dashboard of the Big Six engine a tiger's head was painted, and it was later used by Cartoonist Thomas Nast as the symbol (see cover) for Tammany and its voracious Boss Tweed. Elected to public office, Tweed was a member of the Board of Aldermen, known widely (and correctly) as "The Forty Thieves." In 1863 Tweed won control of Tammany from Fernando Wood...
Still-Lifer Menocal is a banker's son, born 35 years ago in Boston. He studied art at the Boston museum art school, served as a gunner's mate on the U.S.S. Massachusetts during World War II, came to Manhattan to work as an illustrator for Conde Nast publications. Today he lives by his still lifes, painting steadily in a Manhattan studio. His style is still evolving, he says, and "lies somewhere between the subjectivity of Jean Chardin and the objectivity of Cezanne...
Patterns & Paris. Vogue's audience was as small as its view of the world until Conde Nast, who helped give Collier's its start, came east from St. Louis to buy the magazine and its 14,000 circulation in 1909. Elegant, wealthy Publisher Nast poured money into his new property, changed it from a weekly to a fortnightly and gradually expanded its coverage beyond the confines of Park Avenue and Newport. Edna Chase rose like a rocket through the magazine. By 1914 she was editor (at the age of 37) and began playing to the rising U.S. upper...
...Embroidery. By 1928 Vogue was perched on the pinnacle of the fashion world. When Edna Chase set out to build a home on Long Island, Owner Nast sent her a short note expressing his appreciation. Wrote Nast: "I am a very rich man. Your devotion, industry and very amazing intelligence have been a very great factor in accomplishing [this fact] ... I have set aside $100,000 which I want you to use for embroidery on the house you are about to build." As it turned out, Editor Chase was able to draw only $25,000 of her gift; the rest...
...Poynters started CQ in 1945 after a hitch of wartime information service in Washington. Both were old journalistic hands: Nelson as editor of the St. Peters burg (Fla.) Times, owned by his family; Henrietta as foreign editor for Conde Nast in Europe. They started Congressional Quarterly, says Henrietta, "when we found that, though Washington had more than 1,000 reporters, nobody was really doing a job on Congress...