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June 29, 2016
By Michael Cader

Jeff Kehoe has been promoted to executive editor at Harvard Business Review Press.

Rachel Hecht is leaving Mary Anne Thompson Associates after seven years as children’s and YA scout, to launch Rachel Hecht Children’s Scouting on July 1.

Rachel Crawford has returned to New York from Australia to join Wolf Literary Services as an agent and film rights manager. She has worked previously at Fletcher & Company and most recently at University of Queensland Press.

Obituaries
Former book publicist Rose Carrano died on Sunday.

A founding editor of New York magazine and author of books including Little Gloria … Happy at Last, Barbara Goldsmith, 85, also died on Sunday at home in Manhattan.

Moving
Penguin Random House UK announced that the company will vacate Penguin’s offices at the Strand — and Transworld’s offices in Ealing — by 2020, and will consolidate employees in the neighborhood of the current RH UK offices in Pimlico, on Vauxhall Bridge Road. The current RH UK building will be renovated, and the company expects to lease “another, as yet to be identified site, ideally within walking distance.”

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