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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thunder & Lightning. Henry Robinson Luce and Briton Hadden were great & good friends who had been to Hotchkiss School and Yale together, had been editors of their undergraduate papers, had been cub newspapermen. While reporters on the late Frank Munsey's Baltimore News, they conceived the newsmagazine idea and set out to found TIME...
...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...
Before starting a week TIME now gives its staff a two-day rest, during which a backlog of news is allowed to pile up. The week proper begins with long hours of conferences in which writers, researchers, and various specialists, in successive groups of three to 15, examine, weigh, discuss news developments with the managing editors. Requests for more information and verification of facts are wired, telephoned, cabled. Meantime, an immense volume of news-20,000 words an hour-continues to gush in. New conferences are held, old decisions revised, new research begun, stories written, torn apart, rewritten...
Thump, thump, the machine resumes its golf scores, an attendant tears off the bulletin and rushes it to an M. E. The M. E. flips a switch for the Foreign News editor...
...Foreign News researcher comes in: "If we don't run the Yugoslav story their consul general will be brokenhearted...