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Crain's New York Business, November, 2005 by Brady, James
Byline: James Brady I'd seen everything in my 17 years at Women's Wear Daily, the little newspaper that could, but never one of our reporters making the headlines as a "fiend ... a whacko ... a sex attacker.'' Which is what we had last week as cops stalked the paper's former media writer, who allegedly while disguised as a fireman set off smoke bombs and raped a woman in her apartment, videotaping the outrage.
Not that Fairchild Publications didn't have its adventures, its eccentrics, its own gloriously whacky moments. There was Cousin Edgar, the Fairchild who was chairman in 1964, when I sailed home from Paris to become publisher. "I rarely sail anymore,'' said Edgar. "Not since the mutiny.'' What mutiny? "Aboard the Queen Mary. Fortunately, I had a...
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