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Briton Hadden (February 18, 1898 – February 27, 1929) was the co-founder of Time magazine with his Yale classmate Henry Luce. He was Time ' s first editor and the inventor of its revolutionary writing style, known as Timestyle.
May 19, 2018 · Time Inc. began, in 1922, with a simple but revolutionary idea hatched by Henry R. Luce and Briton Hadden. The two men, graduates of Yale University, were rookie reporters at The Baltimore News...
Feb. 27, 1929—Briton Hadden, 31, died of a streptococcus infection which reached his heart. Hadden’s illness was the occasion for appointing a managing editor. Before that, Luce and Hadden...
Oct 8, 2006 · In January of 1929, the creator of Time magazine lay dying in a Brooklyn hospital bed. He was thirty years old. Briton Hadden did not look like a man with only a few weeks to live. His family...
May 23, 2014 · Isaiah Wilner exposes the rivalry—forged at Hotchkiss and Yale—that led Luce to steal the glory from Time’s visionary co-founding editor Briton Hadden after Hadden’s early death, in 1929.
Luce and Briton Hadden, who wanted to start a magazine that would inform busy readers in a systematic, concise, and well-organized manner about current events in the United States and the rest of the world.
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Briton Hadden and Henry Luce with Time's manager in Cleveland. Although Time Magazine claimed it provided an objective view of the world, its editor, Hadden, always sided with the underdog. He ran several stories on the lynching of black men in the Deep South.
Hundreds of messages have been received by the publishers of TIME since BRITON HADDEN died. The expressions printed here reveal the appreciation of his character by a group of men who knew him...
Within two weeks of his early death at just 31, the name of the co-founder of TIME, Briton Hadden, was taken off the masthead of the magazine. Over the following 38 years, his surviving co-founder, Henry Luce, delivered more than 300 speeches around the world, mentioning Hadden just four times.
Briton Hadden was the co-founder of Time magazine with his Yale classmate Henry Luce. He was Time ' s first editor and the inventor of its revolutionary writing style, known as Timestyle.
