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from Showbiz 411<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harold Evans Dies at 92, Pioneering Editor Who Stood up to Rupert Murdoch, Ran US News, Random House, NY Daily News<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

by\u00a0Roger Friedman<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Harry Evans has been on my mind for a month. Isn\u2019t it weird when that happens? I felt like something was wrong. This was the first year I hadn\u2019t seen Harry since I met him in 1985. Several times I looked up his number intending to call him and didn\u2019t. And now it\u2019s too late. Harry has left us at age 92, dead from congestive heart failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I call him Harry but he\u2019s Harold Evans, former editor of the Times of London who stood up to Rupert Murdoch, was fired and wrote a great book about the experience called \u201cGood Times, Bad Times.\u201d His second wife, almost 30 years his junior, was Tina Brown, the young hot shot editor of Tatler magazine in London. They moved to New York in 1982. Tina took over the just-revived and failing Vanity Fair. Harry took several jobs with Mort Zuckerman, owner of US News, then the Daily News, and Atlantic Monthly Press books, a venerable publishing company. They became the hottest media couple in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AMP is where I met Harry. He hired me to be publicity director. In a short time he\u2019d shaken up the place, contracted for a number of non fiction books by name writers. The biggest project was \u201cJe Suis Le Cahier,\u201d the first ever publication of Picasso\u2019s notebooks which would accompany a huge exhibition at the Pace Gallery. The day I met Harry he was 58 years old and was like a little spitfire. Wiry and tiny, he was constantly in motion. He was unlike everyone I\u2019d encountered in the book business, which was staid and lazy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat should we do with Picasso?\u201d he asked me. I said, well, Picasso\u2019s daughter, Paloma, is famous for making perfume and jewelry. Maybe she could help us and do some publicity? You\u2019re right! he cried. He ran into his office, pulling me, and called Tina at Vanity Fair to get Paloma\u2019s phone number. Within seconds we had this woman on the phone, made a lunch date at the very snazzy Four Seasons. My head was spinning. What just happened? Everything was about to change, fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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