>> and they were going to bail out conde nast publications, and william barry-- william campbell andes, the daily telegraph. the deal they did was a handshake deal. nobody would know, but the cameras, bailed them out, and conde stayed in charge of all of his magazines. i don't know anywhere today where that would happen. and so clair is now, by the 1936, 32, 34, 35, she's now in charge of "vanity fair" and she was, of course, a staunch republican as some of you may recall. she decide that as the election is coming up in 32, she's going to start lampooning fdr because the new deal and he was a horrible man. that didn't play very well because naturally fdr was very popular with the people. and so "vanity fair" subscriptions started to fall off. people weren't buying it as much on the news stand and this continued through 1936 election. the finally, what happened, clair of course left when she married henry loose and helen brown norton took over very briefly as its managing director. conde had a brief affair with her. she wrote about him in her book "a stranger at the party", but i thin