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...make our selections, we have been poring over the timelines of history, beginning in 1923, the year Henry Luce and Briton Hadden started this magazine. One day that year, the obscure rabble-rouser Adolf Hitler grabbed his first headlines by staging his failed beer-hall putsch. One day the following year, Lenin died, making way for Stalin. It was clear that the 20th century was not moving on horseback. One evening just three years later, Charles Lindbergh landed his plane near Paris, and suddenly the world seemed a lot smaller...
TIME takes pride in bringing fresh approaches to covering history. Years ago, introducing a series of books called TIME Capsules, Henry Luce summed up the spirit of the enterprise. "The point," he wrote, "is to take a ride in the TIME-machine and have fun." Fasten your seat belts for a wondrous trip...
...hallmarks of the newsmagazine format that Henry Luce and Briton Hadden created in 1923 was a penchant for telling stories through people. Carlyle defined history as "the biography of great men." Similarly, Luce and Hadden's TIME showed that journalism, the rough draft of history, could illuminate momentous events by profiling the gifted and powerful personalities who helped shape them. Nowhere more so than in TIME's selection of a Person of the Year, which has been a highlight since 1927. These iconic figures--statesmen, visionaries, tyrants, unexpected heroes like New York City Mayor RUDY GIULIANI--were singled out because...
...next day, after consulting with President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, Greenough asked Lee, Regent Matthew Luce, Class of 1891, Gay and Assistant Dean Kenneth B. Murdock to gather evidence on the case to be submitted to the President. They called this five-person body “The Court...
...scientists from the recently deceased paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould to the great naturalist Bil Gilbert. I investigated the old hoo-hah espoused by such as Ignatius Donnelly, Jules V erne and Arthur Conan Doyle, and looked into the sounder theories of bygone thinkers such as Rachel Carson and J.V. Luce. I developed a Deep Throat source at the venerable Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute on Cape Cod in Massachusetts and, frankly, I myself got in a bit too deep...