After Shawn, After Gottlieb
Closed mid-October 1992 · On stands late October 1992
The Front
Masthead Notes
Tina Brown is named editor of The New Yorker this month, ending forty years of the Shawn-and-Gottlieb memo culture
A New Title on the Stand
Vibe's Quincy Jones/Time Warner test issue appears this month — a new venture, watched closely by everyone on this floor
The Essay
Letters, Endorsements, Corrections
The autumn's reader mail, longer than usual, on the summer's convention coverage
The Foreign File
The Two Republics
Slovak and Czech negotiators work out the terms of a split due at year's end — a stringer's notes on a divorce nobody put to a referendum
The Feature Well
The Building Committee
A profile of a historic-preservation commission in Savannah negotiating a facade restoration through its second contractor
The City
Subject: Stuyvesant High School moves into its new Battery Park City building this month · Focus areas: the new building, the commute it changes · Themes: what a school's address says about a system
The Back
What a Literate Person Would Know
Tina Brown leaves Vanity Fair for The New Yorker this month
Galley Proofs
The MetLife wordmark replaces the Pan Am sign above Grand Central this month, noted here as a punchline about corporate churn
Autumn Notes
A short column on the season's museum openings in New Orleans and Denver