A sobering moment for me — and such friends as John Ashbery, Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan, David Gates, all of whom wrote for Newsweek — was the news that a nonagenarian stereo-equipment magnate has purchased the magazine (and its debts) for one dollar. New owner Sidney Harmon, 92, is married to Congresswoman Jane Harman (Dem., Calif). How about that.
