"I don't think it will be substantially more [Death, Doom, Destruction, and Layoffs]," Conde Nast CEO Chuck Townsend tells John Koblin. "It'll be a trickle." A trickle, you say? What the hey does that mean?

Rumor from where The Rich hang out: Charles "Chuck" "Commodore" Townsend, the CEO of Conde Nast, has gotten engaged to Jill Roosa—she's been spotted with an engagement ring. It *looks* like Roosa has a picture of Townsend posing with her on her Facebook page, and there are multiple pictures of them together in their natural habitat, the New York Yacht Club. Anyone know any details about the happy couple? Email us.

We're still obsessing over that Ben Widdicombe blind item: "Which very senior Manhattan media executive looks like he might be about to go public with that office affair everyone has been talking about?" You know what we keep forgetting about? Conde Nast CEO Charles Townsend is in divorce proceedings in a Miami-Dade court. The Herald doesn't list a cause for the filing. He used to work with his wife at Family Circle! (Also we forget that he's a commodore of New York Yacht Club! Bwa.) Now that is something even less than circumstantial evidence if we've ever seen it. But don't men always make the same mistake twice? [Miami Herald]

There has been a succession of CEOs since time immemorial.