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When Newspapers Mattered

Samuel I. Newhouse Commands

Samuel I. Newhouse Commands

Samuel I. Newhouse steers the Advance Publications empire through a strike in 1963. Its Conde Nast subsidiary was the first to come up with the idea of lifestyle magazines, publications catering to specific interests. That helped to make Advance the 41st-largest private corporation in the U.S., and garner Conde Nast's publications a reputation as the "high-brow" set of American publishing.

In this photo: Samuel I. Newhouse

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Jan 01, 1963