Magazine Staff Braves Bomb Scare to Publish

When a midday bomb scare forced the evacuation of Conde Nast’s headquarters in New York’s Times Square on Wednesday, the staff of the company’s flagship magazine, the New Yorker, chose to remain in the building and the magazine plans to publish Monday, on schedule, a 96-page issue devoted almost wholly to the terrorist attacks and their aftermath.

“Without pretending that we have the bravery of firefighters or policemen--and with a bow in their direction--this is what we’re supposed to do, put out the magazine,” said David Remnick, editor of the only weekly magazine in the Conde Nast stable.

Remnick said staff members were “made aware that if they really felt they were being put in harm’s way, they could go home without thinking twice about it.” So far as he knew, none left, he said.