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Article: MEMO PAD: IN THE CLOSET...PATNER'S CLEAN SLATE...TV TALK.(briefs)
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- WWD
- Article date:
- September 5, 2003
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IN THE CLOSET: Just after noon Thursday, an untold number of Conde Nast employees had their appetites ruined when a company-wide e-mail announced that "an object that might possibly be an animal part was found in the 18th-floor janitorial area of the freight corridor" that morning.
The company was serving notice that maintenance staff and police -- as in an investigation by the NYPD -- might be rolling through the janitorial areas and bathrooms on their floors soon.
For the most part, things stayed calm, even as staffers debated the metaphorical significance of finding a dead (fill in the blank) on the 18th floor of a magazine company notorious for ...