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American journalist and co-founder of Time magazine ()

Briton Hadden
Born	()February 18, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died	February 27, () (aged&#;31)
Nationality	American
Alma&#;mater	Yale University
Known&#;for	Founder of Time Magazine

Briton Hadden (February 18, &#; February 27, ) was the co-founder of Time magazine with his Yale classmate Henry Luce.

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He was Time's first editor and the inventor of its revolutionary writing style, known as Timestyle. Though he died at 31, he was considered one of the most influential journalists of the twenties, a master innovator^{[citation needed]} and stylist, and an iconic figure of the Jazz Age.

Early life

Born in Brooklyn, Hadden got his start in newspaper writing at Brooklyn's Poly Prep Country Day School, where he wrote for the school magazine, the Poly Prep, and distributed a hand-written, underground sheet to his classmates that was called The Daily Glonk.

Moving to the Hotchkiss School, he wrote for the Hotchkiss Record, a weekly newspaper. After an intense competition, he was elected the chairman of the newspaper and Luce the assistant managing editor.

Briton hadden biography of mahatma gandhi Principles, practices, and beliefs. Luce was the News' managing editor the second time. Gandhi moved his headquarters to Nadiad , [ 93 ] organising scores of supporters and fresh volunteers from the region, the most notable being Vallabhbhai Patel. By promoting the principle of self-reliance, he encouraged Indians to produce their own goods and boycott British products.

Hadden then turned the Record from a weekly into a bi-weekly.

At Yale, Hadden was elected to the staff of the Yale Daily News and later served as the paper's chairman twice ( and –). Luce was the News' managing editor the second time. While at Yale, he was a brother of Delta Kappa Epsilon (Phi chapter) and a member of Skull and Bones.^[1]:&#;&#; It was during a break from school, when Hadden and Luce traveled south to Camp Jackson, South Carolina, as ROTC officer candidates, that they began seriously discussing the idea of creating a magazine that would condense all the news of the week into a brief and easily readable "digest."

Career

After receiving his bachelor's degree from Yale University in , Hadden wrote for the New York World, where he was mentored by one of New York's most famous and accomplished newspaper editors, Herbert Bayard Swope.

Biography of mahatma gandhi hindi: Gandhi found it humiliating, struggling to understand how some people can feel honour or superiority or pleasure in such inhumane practices. Gelder then composed and released an interview summary, cabled it to the mainstream press, that announced sudden concessions Gandhi was willing to make, comments that shocked his countrymen, the Congress workers and even Gandhi. The Man who Divided India. The name Gandhi means "grocer", although Mohandas's father and grandfather were politicians not grocers.

In late , Hadden wrote to Luce, who had recently been let go by the Chicago Daily News, and suggested that they both go to work for the Baltimore News. In Baltimore, they spent their nights working on the idea of a news magazine, which, at first, they planned to call Facts.

Founding Time magazine

In , Hadden and Luce co-founded Time magazine along with Robert Livingston Johnson and another Yale classmate.

Hadden and Luce served alternating years as the company's president, but Hadden was the editor for four and a half of the magazine's first six years, and was considered the "presiding genius".

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Johnson served as the magazine's vice president and advertising director.^[2] In its earliest years the magazine was edited in an abandoned beer brewery, subsequently moving to Cleveland in , and returning to New York in For the next year and several months, both Time and The New Yorker were edited at 25 W.

45th Street in Manhattan. Thus two of the major magazine editors of the s—Briton Hadden and Harold Ross—worked in the same building.

Illness and death

In December , Hadden became ill. He died two months later, most likely of streptococcus viridans, which had entered his bloodstream, causing sepsis and ultimately the failure of his heart.

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Before he died, Hadden signed a will, which left all of his stock in Time Inc. to his mother and forbade his family from selling those shares for 49 years. Within a year of Hadden's death, Luce formed a syndicate, which succeeded in gaining hold of Hadden's stock.

Legacy

Luce took Hadden's name off the masthead of Time within two weeks of his death.

In the next 38 years, he delivered more than speeches around the world, mentioning Hadden four times. Luce acquired control of Hadden's papers, and he kept them at Time Inc., where no one outside the company was allowed to view the papers as long as Luce lived. Throughout his life, Luce repeatedly claimed credit for Hadden's ideas in public speeches and in Time magazine.^[3]

Luce presided over the growth of the Time-Life empire, and donated funds towards the construction of a building at York Street in New Haven, Connecticut, that would eventually become the Yale Daily News' new home.

The office is today called the Briton Hadden Memorial Building.

Biography of mahatma gandhi death Along with his wife, Kasturbai, and their children, Gandhi remained in South Africa for nearly 20 years. The bulk of these million rupees was held back by New Delhi because of the Kashmir conflict and paid only following Gandhi's intervention and fasting. At no time did they offer any resistance. Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society.

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