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President Angell left his fun with the observation that he was anything but disapproving of the new News building since it, like much else that is new at Yale, is a memorial. It was erected by the contributions of 272 friends and admirers of the late Briton Hadden, Yale 1920, acting chairman of the News in the War year 1917-18, chairman 1919-20, onetime star reporter on the late great New York World, co-Founder and Editor of TIME...
Architects Lewis Greenleaf Adams & Thurlow Merrill Prentice of the Briton Hadden Memorial had little ground to work on but they stretched that little far to house the "Oldest College Daily" (founded 1878). Plunked down where it belongs, on a corner central to Yale's ramified, citified campus, the building rises three neat stories in a Gothic style. Downstairs is a spacious heelers' room papered in old issues of the News, Running around the four walls of this room is a wide work-desk of oak, thick enough to withstand the initial-carving of generations of heelers. Downstairs also...
...characterization of Briton Hadden was given by John Stuart Martin, present Managing Editor of TIME. Excerpts...
...story of TIME'S origin and growth is pretty well known, especially to all of us at this memorial ceremony. But I am not sure the underlying conception of the Newsmagazine, so far as Brit Hadden was concerned, is so well known. He phrased it, as he phrased everything, with arresting bluntness. He said: 'People talk too much about things they don't know.' As a boy in school, as a man in college, he felt that general information, the simplest, central facts about all sorts of subjects in which people were interested, from American History...
...original mind, which won him the complete loyalty and affection of his staff. Once he had an office boy named William. William was not a brilliant boy, but he was smart enough to understand the spirit of the office, and young enough to exaggerate it almost comically. 'Mr. Hadden' became his god. William hated to leave at night. Probably he wouldn't have left if Brit hadn't told him he should go to night school. One day when Brit was not in the office and someone called William to do a chore, he uttered...