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...Sherry-Netherland Hotel, also has a large interest in the Savarin chain of high-grade restaurants in Manhattan. The new Waldorf directors also include such celebrities as General William Wallace Atterbury of Pennsylvania Railroad; Edward Wentworth Beatty of Canadian Pacific; Robert Goelet, Manhattan real estate tycoon; Condé Nast, socialite-publisher; Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. of General Motors...
Samuels for Towne- The magazines of William Randolph Hearst challenge the magazines of Publisher Conde Nast on two fronts: Harper's Bazaar v. Vogue, Home & Field v. House & Garden...
Last year Publisher Hearst thought of revamping his Smart Set to compete with Publisher Nast's civilized Vanity Fair and the bright New Yorker (TIME, June 16, 1930). Out of work at the time was bald, sociable, fortyish Arthur H. Samuels. He had written the first newspaper advertisement for The New Yorker five years prior, had urged Publisher Raoul H. Fleischmann to keep up the magazine during its dark early days. In 1928 he was made The New Yorker's associate editor and penny-watcher. Caught in a crossfire between Owner Fleischmann and Editor Harold Ross, he went...
...Bellew. The scene called "Raising the Wind" was supposed to depict the struggle between a U. S. shipowner against the Cunard Company, with John Bull actively helping his line and Uncle Sam a more amiable onlooker. Bellew's figure gained wide popularity and was taken over by Thomas Nast, cartoonist for Harper's Weekly in the 70s, who added whiskers, put stars on the vest. Except for minor embellishments, Uncle Sam thereafter became a standardized character of the Press...
...Cecil has used it ever since-the same one. Pictures which he skillfully took with it interested the editor of the Sketch. He gave an exhibition, received commissions at $500 apiece (post-Depression price:' $300) to do society portraits, was imported to the U. S. by Publisher Conde Nast who recently gave him an exclusive contract for written articles, reproduction rights to all photographs. Mr. Nast made Photographer Beaton a present of a new, expensive camera, "which he grudgingly uses, still clinging to his Kodak whenever possible. Lately Cecil Beaton published an elegant pink-&-white quarto entitled The Book...