Word: briton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year out of Harvard and bored with his job in the credit department of the New York Trust Co., Roy Larsen heard that two Yalemen, Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, were about to launch a new weekly magazine. A friend in publishing encouraged Larsen to apply for a job, but warned that Luce and Hadden were "awfully strong-minded fellows. Can you take it? They had another fellow who couldn...
...Larsen eventually found a congenial home at Time Inc. He stayed for 56 years, until his retirement last spring as vice chairman. After Briton Hadden died of a blood infection in 1929, Larsen became Luce's right hand in all matters of business. He was LIFE'S first publisher, the godfather of the radio and film March of Time series and the longest tenured president of Time Inc. (1939 to 1960). With the exceptions only of Luce and Hadden, Roy Edward Larsen, who died last week at 80, was the person most responsible for the destiny of Tune...
...that as Queen Victoria's last living great grandson, he was a unique link to the glorious days of empire. In a BBC interview, recorded last year for broadcast when he was no longer alive, Mountbatten had hoped for "a reasonably peaceful and satisfying sort of death." No Briton took satisfaction in knowing that Mountbatten, at 79, had been assassinated two weeks ago when a bomb, planted by the Irish Republican Army, blew up his fishing boat...
...settled on a short list of candidates. The most controversial was Canada's forceful Anglican Primate Edward Scott, 60, who is also chairman of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches. But in the end, the commission decided Anglicanism was not ready to pick a non-Briton and thus "do a Wojtyla" (that is, echo Rome's election of a non-Italian as Pope...
...diminutive Briton runs a redoubtable mile