Briton Hadden

Briton Hadden ( February 18, 1898 *, † February 27, 1929 ) was, together with his student friend Henry Luce, whom he knew from their time together at Yale University, co-founder of Time Magazine. Hadden and Luce knew each other since they were 15 years old. They attended the same school in the U.S. state of Connecticut.

Hadden, who was just as H. Luce same year of the Yale Skull & Bones fraternity, started as a newspaper journalist at Hotchkiss Record. After the Yale Daily News was able to increase its sales, he was elected to the local editorial staff and worked twice as chairman of this newspaper. 1917-1918 and 1919-1920 Luce has been both times the managing editor.

After receiving his bachelor's degree at Yale in 1920, Hadden occasionally worked as a journalist, but found the conditions of that time as unsatisfactory. In 1923 he was co-founder of Time Magazine. Luce and he alternated each year into the presidency of the newspaper company. Luce set about to transform this initial magazine in the Time-Life empire, as Hadden ill in December 1928 and died in 1929 (possibly at a caused by a flu laryngitis ).

After Hadden's death, Luce donated money for the construction of a building at 202 York Street in New Haven ( Connecticut ), which will possibly be a new home of Yale Daily News. It is now called the Hadden Memorial Building.