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...VOGUE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CONDÉ NAST by Caroline Seebohm Viking; 390 pages...
...described in this sturdy biography by Caroline Seebohm, a Vogue contributor who was given access to company files, Nast was not quite what he seemed. He was a parvenu from the provinces, raised in St. Louis, the second son of a ne'er-do-well speculator. Through a Georgetown University classmate, he landed a job at Collier's Weekly, and by 1909 had learned enough about publishing to buy an obscure high-society weekly journal. He improved everything-the paper, the fashion drawings, the photography, the writing-and within a decade Vogue became the nation's most...
...wise move. Nast knew almost nothing about fashion. "Until the day he died, he could not tell you why a certain model was good or bad," writes Seebohm. "But he was a connoisseur of women. His respect for them as colleagues was topped only by his appreciation of them as romantic inspiration...
...midst of the Republican National Convention, the New York Times published a story from its Bonn bureau reporting that Goldwater had been exchanging letters with right-wing West German politicians. Most notably, said the story, quoting "competent informants," Goldwater had been in "frequent and friendly" correspondence with Hans-Christoph Seebohm, a conservative who was then the West German Minister of Transport. The byline on the story: "Arthur J. Olsen," then the Times's Bonn bureau chief...
When the story appeared, Goldwater called it the "damnedest lies," and Seebohm's staff issued a denial that the two men had ever met or exchanged letters. Today, Olsen sticks by his story, claiming that he confirmed it with Seebohm and other sources...