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Founders: BRITON HADDEN 1898-1929 HENRY R. LUCE...
Founders: BRITON HADDEN 1898-1929 HENRY R. LUCE...
Founders: BRITON HADDEN 1898-1929 HENRY R. LUCE...
Probably the best clue came from the Pan Am hijackers themselves, who demanded that they be flown to Cyprus to negotiate the release from prison of three of their friends and comrades. They were referring, apparently, to two Arabs and a young Briton who were sentenced to life imprisonment last year for the murder of three Israelis aboard a yacht in the port of Larnaca. The convicted trio claimed the Israelis were intelligence agents posing as tourists, a charge that Israel denied. The three were believed to be members of Force 17, the personal bodyguard of Yasser Arafat, chairman...
When Yale Graduates Henry Luce and Briton Hadden (class of 1920) launched TIME in 1923, they recruited more than a few fellow alumni to staff their fledgling magazine. Over the years the Yale ranks were easily surpassed in number by new arrivals from other colleges around the country, including a hefty contingent from archrival Harvard. So it is no surprise that the team that worked on this week's cover stories on Harvard's 350th anniversary includes staffers with ties to the venerable Massachusetts school...