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Temperamentally, Harry Luce was TIME'S lightning; Brit Hadden its thunder. Young Editor Hadden, black-haired, bushy-browed and so nervous that he never sat still, always scowled at copy, generally from beneath a green eyeshade. Vexed by a stupid blunder* he would growl out loud, sometimes stamp his feet. Pleased by an apt phrase, he would vent a guffaw that apprised TIME'S writers that a new phrase had been canonized in TIME style. Disdainful of "gumchewers," he always chewed gum. Contemptuous of dead literature, he constantly held up Homer† as an example to TIME...
Death came, as it must to all men, to Briton Hadden in 1929. Ill for two months with a streptococcus infection, he died on February 27-six years almost to the hour after he and Henry Luce had sent to press the first issue of the first newsmagazine...
...died of the same disease (endocarditis) as Lord Northcliffe, famed British publisher for whom he had a lifelong admiration. As a memorial to Briton Hadden, Editor Luce and his many other friends erected a handsome Gothic building on the Yale campus to house the Yale Daily News, of which he had been editor eight years before...
Some time before Editor Hadden's death, Editor Luce had been exploring new types of business stories-to improve TIME'S "Business & Finance" section. He found a field so vast and fertile it could produce many stories not appropriate for TIME'S limited space. Hence, in 1930, FORTUNE was founded. Again, a few years later, several years of experiment in improving TIME'S and FORTUNE'S illustrations led to the conclusion that pictures could lend point to words and words to pictures but one had to be dominant...
These two by-products of TIME might well have swamped Editor-Publisher Luce had he not, soon after Hadden's death, deputized the business management to Roy E. Larsen, TIME'S first circulation manager.* To free himself, when necessary, from routine editorial duties, he also created the post of managing editor and gave it to John S. Martin, a contributing editor of TIME'S first issue. Later, the various TIME Inc. publications were made autonomous and given publishers to look after their individual affairs. Two former managing editors of FORTUNE, Ralph...