Word: briton
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Founders: Briton Hadden 1898-1929 Henry R. Luce...
...week later, on the aging Chosonminhang airlines plane into Pyongyang -- the carrier runs only five flights a week, linking the capital to Moscow, Beijing, Khabarovsk and Sofia -- the Briton was the only sightseer in evidence. Most of the passengers were North Koreans (easily identified by the badge depicting President Kim Il Sung that every North Korean must pin over his heart) and Japanese businessmen, apparently undeterred by the fact that North Korea is the only country that Japanese nationals are not permitted by their government to visit...
...else, the creators recast the leading role, a marooned English seaman who must make a life in Japan. Clavell originally wanted a Briton and hired Peter Karrie. Mounting discontent with him led the creators to turn to Casnoff, 37, who had sung the role ably at an informal audition but at the time struck them as too young, little known and American. Casnoff took the job but wanted further changes: "I was kind of outspoken because they had so much work to do in so little time. They were between an opera and a book musical, neither fish nor fowl...
Founders: Briton Hadden 1898-1929 Henry R. Luce...
Founders: Briton Hadden 1898-1929 -- Henry R. Luce...