Or if someone's got wind of it you do your very best to discredit the source or to do a deal with an editor to say, 'OK fine but what about if I've got this.

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But credit is also due to the magazine's male leaders--notably my grandfather Malcolm Forbes and editor Jim Michaels--who deeply embraced innovation, whatever the source.

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