Word: briton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...title of this book is only fifty percent accurate. It says that Briton Hadden was the co-founder of 'Time.' And that is true. It also says that the book is a biography. And this assertion is wildly misleading and ought to be chopped up a syllable at a time...
Noel F. Busch has written, instead of a biography, a zippy account of the founding of 'Time,' with special reference to the life of Briton Hadden. A good bit of that account is fascinating, but taken altogether, it does not make a satisfying book. For the result is no more a thorough picture of 'Time's' origin and growth than it is a thorough job on Hadden...
Just what manner of man was this Briton Hadden who was voted the "most likely to succeed" by the same Yale class that voted Henry Luce the "most brilliant," and who proceeded, with Luce, to create 'Time' before he was twenty-four? Busch tolls you that he was an "editorial prodigy." By this, Busch seems to mean that from the first months of his life Hadden was possessed by the desire, and the ability, to publish his ideas and to get them "off the page and into the reader's mind." Hadden was also highly competitive and vastly ambitious...
...next day newsmen and photographers packed the lobby of the office building at 2 Park Avenue. Jessup was already in his headquarters on the 23rd floor. Chauvel and Cadogan threaded their way through the crush and into the elevator. In Jessup's modest green and brown office, American, Briton and Frenchman had only a few minutes' wait. At 12:31 the door to Jessup's office was thrown open. There, nodding, was burly Yakov Malik, his smile the beaming equivalent of the Russian for "Hello...
Frustrated Exports. Have Britain's modern "mercantile adventurers" the stuff to sweep the dollar main? Gone were the days when Britain faced no real competition on world markets. As one energetic Briton said last week: "We must get out of our carpet slippers and don swashbucklers' boots." But the British were not doing much swashbuckling. As the sellers' market was fading, U.S. sales resistance mounted. British prices were too high for the U.S. market; Austin Motor bravely slashed the prices of its cars from $75 to $1,000, cutting its profits to ribbons. Other British automakers groaned...