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...Larry Borwnell (H) defeated Chase, 15-11, 12-15, 15-7, 10-15, 15-13. Andy Miler (H) defeated Swayer, 15-10, 15-10, 8-15, 15-11. Ted Rose (H) defeated Baker, 15-10, 15-8, 15-6. Hadden Tomes (H) defeated Watt...
...title of this book is only fifty percent accurate. It says that Briton Hadden was the co-founder of 'Time.' And that is true. It also says that the book is a biography. And this assertion is wildly misleading and ought to be chopped up a syllable at a time...
Noel F. Busch has written, instead of a biography, a zippy account of the founding of 'Time,' with special reference to the life of Briton Hadden. A good bit of that account is fascinating, but taken altogether, it does not make a satisfying book. For the result is no more a thorough picture of 'Time's' origin and growth than it is a thorough job on Hadden...
Just what manner of man was this Briton Hadden who was voted the "most likely to succeed" by the same Yale class that voted Henry Luce the "most brilliant," and who proceeded, with Luce, to create 'Time' before he was twenty-four? Busch tolls you that he was an "editorial prodigy." By this, Busch seems to mean that from the first months of his life Hadden was possessed by the desire, and the ability, to publish his ideas and to get them "off the page and into the reader's mind." Hadden was also highly competitive and vastly ambitious...
...good bit of the trouble with 'Briton Hadden' is in its style. Busch is a senior editor on 'Life,' and he writes with all the brightness and clarity that go along with the frequent superficiality of that magazine's prose. There is a tremendous difference between the apparently effortless writing of a real stylist and the glibness that characterizes this book. And Busch's thinking is as glib as are his sentences. He deals more in notions than in ideas; and his book is a sketch, not a biography...