BRITON HIDDEN

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 and who had already come to understand his genius.

WILLIAM LYON PHELPS: "Unspeakably shocked and distressed by the death of Hadden I have always had the greatest respect for his ability and character and the warmest affection for him personally. He has left a great name in American journalism."

JAMES ROWLAND ANGELL, President of Yale University: "Briton Hadden's death is a great loss to American journalism, in which he had already made a brilliant record, giving promise of a still more brilliant future."

JOHN BERDAN, Professor of English at Yale: "It was such a short time ago when he was writing his Yale News editorials and was soon to be discussing anxiously the new magazine TIME. Whatever he did, he carried through to its triumphant conclusion, sacrificing himself to his work . . . But what we shall miss is not his work, but himself; not what he did, but what he was."

DAVID LAWRENCE, President of the United States Daily: "He was a great editor. His genius was coupled with an extraordinary personality. He leaves behind indelible impressions of a man never too busy to be kind to others and never too absorbed in his own taste to see the changing picture or the world around him. He helped to found a great magazine which will be a monument to his memory."

ROY W. HOWARD, Chairman of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers: "The death of Briton Hadden robs American journalism of one of its greatest promises. His youthful viewpoint struck a new note and a wholesome one. His co-workers will carry on the success he helped achieve, but the task will be heavier despite their determination to make good his absence from their ranks."

EARNEST ELMO CALKINS, President, Calkins & Holden: " TIME Newsmagazine, original, individual, independent, sometimes cocky but never dull, copying no other pattern but creating its own form and a language to express its unhackneyed viewpoint will always remain a monument to Briton Hadden's uncompleted life no matter what heights it eventually attains, as he had the vision and courage to offer us a new attitude toward the day's news. We could better spare an older and less vivid editor."

FRANK R. KENT, Vice President of the Baltimore Sun: "The death of Briton Hadden is a real loss. To have conceived the idea back of TIME and to have successfully put it into effect was a constructive achievement and a public service.

LANGHORNE GIBSON, Vice President of Life: "All of us here at Life extend our deepest sympathy to you and your organization in your great loss. Brit was a great fellow and a great publisher. May your magazine always serve as a fitting monument."

DR. HENRY SEIDEL CANBY, Editor of the Saturday Review of Literature: "Briton Hadden was one of the most resourceful, energetic and original editors of the younger generation. He had a great career ahead of him and a great achievement behind in his share in the establishing of TIME. He was one of those men who shows their powers early and realize all expectations. I knew him as an undergraduate editor of a college daily--afterwards as the pioneer of a new kind of magazine and as a prophet of an accomplished success in the magazine world, just as energetic and as ambitious as in the beginning, and with as great possibility of further advance. His death has deprived us of one of the coming leaders of American journalism."

KARL A. BICKEL, President of the United Press: "Journalism has lost more than it will ever know for he had just fairly started on a most brilliant career with all the rough spots behind him."

PAUL BLOCK, Publisher of metropolitan newspapers: "America has lost one of its most brilliant publishers and writers--one who accomplished in a few years what many publishers have tried to do in many years. I am so deeply shocked at the loss of this fine outstanding man and publisher that I am not able to express my feelings."

HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE, onetime Executive Editor of the New York World: "It is hard to believe that one so vital, so young, so interested in the adventure of life is now only a memory. I am proud that I gave him his journalistic start and I like to think I was able now and then to help him with suggestions. His ability was deep, nature was considerate. He died in the midst of an unfold that promised much. His friendship, warm and stimulating was a privilege. His best memorial is TIME, which he so largely created."

JOHN FARRAR, Author, Critic:

"Briton Hadden was one of the most brilliant editors of his generation. His loss to American journalism is great. Extraordinarily young, energetic, brilliant, he was an honest friend to clean journalism and a great force for good in the magazine world.

F. TRUBEE DAVISON, Assistant Secretary of War: "He was a grand person, and I know a very particular loss to you."

STANLEY RESOR, President of the J. Walter Thompson Company: "Sincerest sympathy in the loss of so fine a friend as well as so brilliant a co-worker as Briton Hadden.

" It is a pity that Briton couldn't have lived for years to have enjoyed TIME'S success.

"A year ago, one of the outstanding publishers told me how you and Briton had come to him for advice before starting TIME. Not content with his general statement that it coul be done, he said that he had gone into detail as to how impossible such a venture would be. He then added, 'The only mistake in my estimate was that I had omitted their stroke of genius.'

"To have been a part in building so brilliant a weekly of a type which fills so real a place, on lines so solid that its influence will become more and more far-reaching year after year, is, in itself, more than a normal life's work."