Word: briton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Well," began Correspondent Busch, "it seems that Harry Luce and Briton Hadden...
...Wait," said his companion, "I've heard about Luce, but who was Briton Hadden...
This week, in Briton Hadden: A Biography of the Co-Founder of TIME (236 pp.,Farrar, Straus, $3), Busch, a first cousin of Hadden and now a LIFE senior writer, tells what manner of man Brit Hadden was. The informal portrait, lit with humor, shows a husky, mustached young man with intense grey eyes, enormous curiosity and vitality, and a huge capacity for work, play and horseplay. In his life & time (and the extravagant, turbulent '20s were all the time he had) his impact on U.S. journalism was as forceful...
...days later, as it must to all men, Death came to Briton Hadden...
...Briton decried "witch-hunting" of Communists in this country, and said, "In ten years you will be as ashamed of it as you were ten years after the Mitchell-Palmer affair...