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...Newsweek, Oz did more than breathe life into a publication that lived in TIME's shadow. He revolutionized American - in fact, global - journalism. If Britton Hadden and Henry Luce, who founded TIME, were the fathers of the newsmagazine, Oz was the person who showed that the format could be a place for great, campaigning journalism, giving it a new relevance as America's post-1945 golden age gave way to the social and political tumult of the 1960s. In 1963, with a special issue titled "The Negro in America" - one of the handful of truly revolutionary pieces of American journalism...
...Wilner: Luce loved Hadden. They had an amazing friendship. Even while he was betraying Hadden for 38 years, Luce felt fondly towards him. But at the same time, I think Luce was intensely jealous of Hadden, and because Luce had a weak ego and an extremely well-developed sense of competitive instinct, he always wondered what Hadden had thought of him and he felt uneasy, that maybe Hadden didn't respect Luce as much as he should have. And he felt dwarfed by Hadden. It's very difficult to feel that way towards someone who has passed away...
...Wilner: Luce was the business mind, and the company never would have survived without him, and Hadden knew that. In fact, he always said of Luce, he's a business genius. I think Hadden regarded Luce as a business genius because Hadden could be quite impractical. He would come up with 50 ideas. Some of them were just crazy. Luce would say, " No. We can't do that. We can't do this. " And then finally Hadden would come up with a good idea and Luce would approve it. So that's why I think of Luce as a great...
...TIME: Did Hadden realize what was going on at the end of his life...
...Wilner: Absolutely. He was very uneasy with Luce. They were not on speaking terms for the most part during the last year of Hadden's life. Trust and loyalty were so important to Hadden. He was vulnerable. Despite being so charismatic and so popular, he had an inner feeling that he didn't really belong, that he was an eccentric person, and he always felt lonely within that no one could truly understand him. So Luce was somebody he was able to form a deep bond with because they had such a close intellectual connection which, for both Hadden...