Word: britons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mount Everest is being stubborn about revealing its secrets. The international expedition which set out to find the remains of George Mallory, the Briton who 75 years ago died in his attempt to be first to climb the world?s highest mountain, has returned from its search -- and is split about whether Mallory succeeded. Although the team did find the explorer?s frozen remains in the snow -- including several letters, goggles, and other personal effects -- they did not find the body of his climbing partner, Andrew Irvine, nor the object they dearly hoped to find: a Kodak camera, which might...
Abdullah has yet to express his views, but friends say he supports the peace with Israel and opposes Iraq's Saddam Hussein. The son of Briton Toni Gardiner, the second of Hussein's four wives, he received an extensive education at Sandhurst and Oxford and attended Georgetown University in the U.S. He heads the army's elite Special Forces, and his popularity in the Bedouin-based force is a strong point. He may have an advantage in dealing with the country's Palestinians: his wife hails from the West Bank. But Abdullah has no political or government experience. And strict...
...prestigious job in magazines for a promising but also somewhat vague-sounding enterprise. Whatever its actual merits, in a world in which even Linda Tripp feels she needs a spokesperson, marketing is everything--a point Brown has often made herself. And whatever one thinks of the 44-year-old Briton's tenure at the New Yorker, she is indisputably the greatest buzz generator in the history of American publishing, author of the notion that a magazine must be talked about and not just read. Her new partner is himself no slouch in this regard: Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of Miramax...
...people who will be at the party in spirit only are Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, who started this magazine in March 1923. It goes without saying that Hadden and Luce were enormously smart and able. What is rarely said is that at that moment 75 years ago, they were so very young. That's what surprises--and inspires--me about them: their youth. On the date of Vol. I, No. 1, Hadden was 25 and Luce 24. As they assembled their 32-page magazine in offices at 9 East 40th Street--their equivalent, you might say, of the garage...
...that era, TIME did use the term floater to designate a sort of utility infielder who moved from section to section as a replacement writer. The magazine was still rigidly divided into such sections as Education or Sport or Press--a method of organizing the week's news that Briton Hadden and Henry Luce had invented roughly 40 years before. In the jacket copy of my novel, I'd acknowledged that I was the newsmagazine floater referred to as having tried "to escape an overlong stay in the Religion section by writing 'alleged' in front of any historically questionable religious...