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...London-based design director, Frank Drake. "We aimed to match its grandeur." The new Face team can expect tough competition from the capital's established operators, however. As the former owner of Frank's Place - a no-nonsense pub on the edge of the grubby Sanlitun bar area - Briton Russell Probert has already paid his dues in the city. He decided to go upmarket when Frank's came under a city planner's wrecking ball in 2005. His new operation, the decidedly grown-up Pavillion, tel: (86-10) 6507 2617, features luxurious fittings, fine wines and what might be described...
TIME has always been regarded as the brainchild of founder Henry Luce. But is it possible that Briton Hadden, the co-founder of TIME, who died in 1929 at the age of 31, was actually more influential in the creation of the magazine than Luce? That's the contention of Isaiah Wilner, 28, the author of the newly published The Man Time Forgot: A Tale of Genius, Betrayal, and the Creation of Time Magazine (HarperCollins). In writing his book, Wilner was given full access to Time Inc.'s voluminous archives. TIME's publishing reporter, Andrea Sachs, spoke with Wilner...
...Wilner: Back when I was at the Yale Daily News, I used to work every night beneath this portrait of Briton Hadden, and it was a very mysterious picture. He had almost a Mona Lisa smile. So I started wondering about who he was. I began reading his old editorials in the bound volumes of the Yale Daily News, and his style in those old papers sounded just like the early voice of TIME. It was very flip, brash, clever, a lot of short sentences. It was full of energy. That's when I started thinking much more seriously about...
...Wilner: I found that Briton Hadden was really the creative genius behind TIME. He came up with the idea in the early stages of his childhood, so the newsmagazine was really something that sprang from his soul. Then he selected Luce to be his partner, and encouraged him to become a journalist after Luce had been fired from his first journalism job. Hadden raised most of the money because he was really the big man at Yale and had the connections, and also was quite a salesman. He hired all of the writers, who were total unknowns, some of them...
...different religious backgrounds who may find a civil union the best option. Sujata Naik and Ron Scapello puzzled over the possibilities. In the end, Naik, a dual British and U.S. national of Indian immigrant parents, brought up as a Hindu but educated at a convent school, took Scapello, a Briton of Maltese Catholic parentage, as her husband in a Hindu exchange of vows. "We felt committed as a couple and we didn't feel the need for an official blessing," says Naik. "That's partly why we went for the Hindu wedding. It seemed more fun." Naik proposed inventing...