Noel F. Busch
ASIN: B07HRQHBXB
Publisher: Lume Books
Pages: 143
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. Luce took control of Hadden's papers after his death, barring anyone outside the company from viewing them, and consistently claimed credit for Hadden's ideas in public speeches and articles.Noel F. Busch uncovers the incredible buried story of Hadden's short life, from his birth in 1898 to his premature death in 1929, seven years after the inauguration of the magazine. From his early writing and editorial activities at Hotchkiss boarding school – where he was a classmate and competitor of Henry Luce, to his time at Yale, where the two became collaborators and decided to found the now global ...