Editor who revived Tatler and reinvented Vanity Fair tries her act on Newsweek Around sunset on a recent spring evening in New York, a nervous-looking young woman was clutching a clipboard outside the entrance to the apartment belonging to Tina Brown rift gold and her husband, SirHarold Evans.
Guests were shown into a large room filled with fresh-cut flowers, caterers bearing trays of hors d’oeuvres, and wall-to-wall chatter. The billionaire chairman of Starbucks, Howard Schultz — whose new book, ‘‘ Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life Without Losing Its Soul,’’ was the reason for the party — stood a head taller than the crowd, watching with a smile.
Ms. Brown, editor of the newly merged Newsweek and Daily Beast, was wearing a black cocktail dress and holding a wine glass filled with sparkling water as she darted among U. S. media and political heavyweights like Maria Bartiromo,rift gold an anchorwoman for the cable channel CNBC; the former White House budget director, Peter R. Orszag; and the former New York City police commissioner, William J. Bratton.
As is not uncommon in preparation for Ms. Brown’s parties, the room’s furniture had that afternoon been loaded into a truck, which waswaiting, out of sight, for the last guests to leave before unloading its contents back into the apartment. Mr. Evans, 82, has been known to joke with friends that he would prefer to be in the truck, where he could circle the block in the comfort of his own home.
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