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Jonathan Coleman, 28, is the youngest senior editor at Simon & Schuster. The newly published Changing of the Guard is his project. He arrived at the firm three years ago, after working at Knopf as a $220-a-week publicist. During that time, he had met David Broder, the Washington Post journalist...
...roving publicist's pick
...Boston Publicist C. Paul Luongo likes to describe himself as a "person of infinite taste." Leaving aside whether such a claim itself shows infinite taste, Luongo set out six years ago to prove it by tracking down the best goods and services offered in the U.S. The entries in his list book, America's Best! 100 (Sterling; $9.95), range from airports (Tampa, of course) to zoos (San Diego, naturally). In between, he roves entertainingly, and often eruditely, through such recondite subjects as octopus-ink paintings, spumoni fudge and specialty cement. For the list mavin with less esoteric tastes, Luongo...
MARRIED. Vincente Minnelli, 76, Academy Award-winning director (Gigi, 1958) and father, by a previous marriage to the late Judy Garland, of Entertainer Liza Minnelli; and his longtime companion, Lee Anderson, fiftyish, British-born publicist and Hollywood socialite; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...publicist named Peter Meaden assumed informal responsibility for managing them, molding them into front men for the flourishing Mod movement. Representing a sort of secret style, a surly, dubious attitude and a way of life in which the work week was a lingering funeral and the weekend a temporary resurrection, Mod was a kind of berserk street refraction of traditional English clubmanship. Having the right clothes and shoes was important. Riding the right motor scooter was important. Gobbling the right pills in the right quantities and listening to the right music were important. All this has been captured well...