Word: briton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Europe will continue to be largely American-run, national operations henceforth will be significantly de-Americanized. As part of the same shuffle that brings Andrews to Europe, Max Ueber will become Ford of Germany's first native managing director since World War II. Similarly, Leonard Crossland, a Briton, will succeed an American as general manager of British Ford. All of which should go a long way toward making Ford a truly multinational company...
Under such circumstances, the average Briton may not have lost money under freeze and squeeze, but he has not gained much either. Prices are steady; he can cover his needs, visit a pub, even buy such luxuries as a new television set. But sales of autos and houses are slow because money is tight. Few people will vacation abroad this year because of the $140 limit on money that can be taken out of the country...
Epic & Titillating. If conscience and commitment led Henry Luce into journalism in the first place, his Yankee ancestry drove him hard to do well at it.* "The bitch goddess," he said, "sat in the outer office." With his Yalemate and co-founder of TIME Briton Hadden, Luce realized after World War I that Americans as a nation were more aware than ever of world problems?"but that their knowledge didn't equal their interest." Luce recalled his father's dictum: "The purpose of education is to make a man feel at home in his universe." That, to him, became...
...last, after a year of preparations and frustrations, the first issue of TIME, dated March 3, 1923, was going to press. Soon after midnight, with Briton Hadden in command, almost the entire editorial staff was transported in three taxis from East 40th Street to the Williams Press at 36th Street and Eleventh Avenue, New York. There, until dawn, we stood around the "stones" (tables) of the composing room. Under Hadden's direction we wrote new copy to fill holes, we rewrote to cut and to fit, and everyone tried his hand at captions. It was daylight when I got home...
Rolling-Eyed Greeks. At Hotchkiss, Luce met Briton Hadden, a fiercely competitive boy from Brooklyn. Hadden became editor of the school paper; Luce (he tried to shake off the nickname "Chink") took charge of the literary magazine. Both excelled in Greek, and Hadden's fondness for such Homeric epithets as "rolling-eyed Greeks" and "far-darting Apollo" prefigured his later introduction of such double adjectives into the young TIME. The two boys did not become close friends until they reached Yale, where Hadden became chairman of the Yale Daily News in his sophomore year, an unusual honor prompted...