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Founders: BRITON HADDEN 1898-1929 HENRY R. LUCE...
Sociologist Jeffrey Hadden of the University of Virginia, who was skeptical of religious broadcasters' claims to big audiences in his 1981 book Prime Time Preachers, says the Nielsen report shows a "much larger" audience than he and other experts had thought. The preachers, he now asserts, "have greater unrestricted access to media than any other interest group in America." Powered by TV evangelism, he predicts, the Christian right "is destined to become the major social movement in America" during the late 20th century...
...writer for TIME (1927-38), as an editor and senior writer for LIFE (1938-52) and as a World War II correspondent for both magazines; of pulmonary fibrosis; in Millbrook, N.Y. His books include biographies of Franklin Roosevelt (1944), Adlai Stevenson (1952), Theodore Roosevelt (1963) and Briton Hadden (1949), his cousin and co-founder with Henry Luce of Time...
...Actor Jason Robards as host, the fast-paced show uses film footage of events and quotes from TIME'S contemporaneous judgments. There are also a few behind-the-scenes looks at TIME'S own history, beginning with its somewhat shaky 1923 start under Henry Luce and Briton Hadden, when the first issue sold fewer than 9,000 copies. The program goes on to examine the origins of the Man of the Year and the phenomenon of early-years TIME style, with its backward-running sentences and punchy neologisms, like "tycoon" and "socialite," which are now part of everyday...
When TIME first appeared on newsstands in March 1923, not even the brash, energetic 24-year-olds who had co-founded the magazine, Henry R. Luce and Briton Hadden, could have predicted that it would spawn one of the world's largest communications empires. As Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Anatole Grunwald has noted, "Not many institutions launched 60 years ago have survived, thrived and become part of folklore...