As much as we love the ladies of Women's Wear Daily's Memo Pad, today we couldn't help but chuckle a bit at the second story. Bringing up the rear on the coverage of Hearst's "we're is the best company ever party" WWD gives us literally the only detail about the party we haven't heard yet. We heard about the Tower cocktails and the hot caterers
. But! We bet you didn't hear about his.

By now, everyone has heard the highlights from the Hearst Tower opening party held Monday night in New York — the glad-handing between every media mogul in town. Mayor Bloomberg. Cirque du Soleil-like dancers. Stevie Wonder. Cocktails.

But few know how the east facade of the building stayed candlelit for nearly six hours without burning down the brand-new house Hearst built. Bronson Van Wyck of event planning firm Van Wyck & Van Wyck confessed the candles were actually wax columns with LED lights. "We didn't want to have any risk of fire," he explained. "It's a grand opening and a historical experience for the company. We just didn't want to go there."

Wow! We had not heard about those Van Wyck "candles." And really? Somebody thought having a fire in the new building would have been a bad thing? That totally explains why they don't have big fancy events in the Conde Nast building. Surely there are people looking for any excuse to burn that place down.

After Party [Stephanie D. Smith, WWD]