Word: friedrich
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Maria Friedrich St. Paul...
...Bicentennial celebration, we began over a year ago to plan an issue devoted to the news in those sultry first days of July 1776, written and edited more or less as it would have been if TIME had existed in those days. Under the supervision of Senior Editor Otto Friedrich, a team of 14 researchers set to work poring through archives, letters, diaries and contemporary newspapers, seeking the myriad colorful details that would have been sought by a good reporter transplanted into the 18th century. As the research accumulated?a mountain of some 1,600 pages, over 50 percent more...
...FRIEDRICH DUERRENMATT
...Service was presented to TIME for last year's Bicentennial issue, "Independence!," the most popular issue in the magazine's 53-year history. Four days earlier, TIME had won the national Headliners Award for this same July 4, 1776, issue. Both honors came as Senior Editor Otto Friedrich, who edited our first Bicentennial special, was plunging into the closing stage of preparation for the mid-May publication of our second special, "The New Nation," dated Sept. 26, 1789. This sequel, like its prizewinning predecessor, was written as if TIME reporters were on the scene that week two centuries...
...Nothing quite like the 1776 issue had ever been tried," says Friedrich. "But I think the sequel is going to be just as interesting, maybe even more so." To prepare for "The New Nation," 18 researchers last November began tapping TIME'S own library but soon branched out for primary source materials to the Rare Book Room of the New York Public Library, the Smithsonian Institution, the Boston Athenaeum and numerous other collections...