S.I. Newhouse Jr., Who Turned Condé Nast Into a Magazine Powerhouse, Dies at 89<br />“No one will ever thank you for saving money at Condé Nast magazines,” Mr. Liberman<br />told one of his editors, according to a 1996 Wall Street Journal article.<br />“With Si’s passing, the big chapters in the history of magazines — as written by men like Si and Henry Luce — will have come to an end,” said Mr. Carter, who announced last month<br />that he would leave Vanity Fair in December after 25 years.<br />Though he was a shy man and often painfully awkward in public, Mr. Newhouse hired some of the most charismatic magazine editors of the late 20th century, among them Tina Brown<br />and Graydon Carter at Vanity Fair and Diana Vreeland and Anna Wintour at Vogue, and encouraged them to behave like the celebrities they extolled in his publications.
