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...printing plant. There, in an all-night siege "amid torn newspapers, fried-egg sandwiches and smudged proof sheets," according to a later account, the first issue was put to bed. And yet when the 24-year-old Henry Luce, co-founder of the magazine with Briton Hadden, looked at the result the next afternoon, he was pleasantly surprised: "It was quite good. Somehow it all held together...
...entrant was the late Robert Manry, a Cleveland newspaperman who in 1965 sailed across the Atlantic in his 13½-ft. Tinkerbelle, a craft so tiny that it looked like a bathtub toy. Years passed-it takes a certain sort of person to enter the Ridiculous-and last year Briton Tom McClean sailed from Newfoundland to England in an absurd craft called the Giltspur, more than 3 ft. shorter than Tinkerbelle...
Sixty years ago this week, two young Yale graduates, Henry Luce and Briton Hadden, were about to close the third issue of their new magazine, TIME. It must have been difficult to concentrate on the job at hand because the first returns trickling in from Vol. 1 No. 1 were not all that promising. About 2,500 of the first 5,000 newsstand copies, priced at 15?, had gone unsold. One of the other problems was that Roy Larsen, TIME'S first circulation manager, who was to play a role second only to Luce's in the development...
Anthony Cave Brown, a Briton whose 1975 book, Bodyguard of Lies, described the intelligence work that preceded the 1944 Normandy invasion, has done an appropriately heroic job of separating the leader from the legend. Brown had some advantages over his ill-fated predecessors, among them Donovan's private papers and his wife's 65-year diary. The result is a memo-studded, overweight history of the OSS, relieved by tales of counterespionage and by the story of Donovan himself...
...surprised everyone with his appearance. Pale and looking far older than in his official portraits, Andropov walked with a slow, distinctive gait. He put each leg forward cautiously, his head down as if he were studying the design on the red carpet laid in his path. One guest, a Briton, whispered, "Why, he can hardly see!" Indeed, as Andropov raised his head to face the waiting foreign envoys, his thick bifocal glasses betrayed a vision problem that seemed to explain the stooped, hesitant walk...