When James Truman was plucked from the relative obscurity of Details magazine at the age of 35 to be editorial director of Condé Nast Publications in 1994, it was widely predicted that he would
not survive the company's cutthroat environment and mercurial ownership. But the British-bred Mr. Truman lasted 11 years. He left Monday morning, when he walked into the office of S. I. Newhouse Jr.,
the company's chairman, and said that he was quitting.
Read the whole story at The New York Times, January 6, 2005
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