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S.I. Newhouse

Media magnate
Newhouse, who died at age 89 on Oct. 1, at the Condé Nast Building in New York City on Aug. 21, 1989

IN THE SUMMER OF 1985, S.I. Newhouse, chairman of Condé Nast publications, the newspaper and magazine empire he co-inherited from his father, offered me a lift back to the office in his limo after our monthly lunch. Small, shy and nebbishy, Si, as he was known, was the only power

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