"award or prize, simply based on many previous selections of admirable people. However, ""Time"" magazine points out that controversial figures such as Adolf Hitler (1938), Joseph Stalin (1939 and 1942), Nikita Khrushchev (1957) and Ayatollah Khomeini (1979) have also been granted the title for their impacts. As a result of the public backlash it received from the United States for naming Khomeini as Man of the Year in 1979, ""Time"" has since shied away from using figures who are controversial in the United States for commercial reasons, fearing reductions in sales or advertising revenue. ""Time""s Person of the Year 2001,"
"not just granted to individuals. Pairs of people such as married couples and political opponents, classes of people, and inanimate objects have all been selected for the special year-end issue. In 1949, Winston Churchill was named ""Man of the Half-Century"", and the last issue of 1989 named Mikhail Gorbachev as ""Man of the Decade"". The December 31, 1999 issue of ""Time"" named Albert Einstein the ""Person of the Century"". Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi were chosen as runners-up. Despite the magazine's frequent statements to the contrary, the designation is often regarded as an honor, and spoken of as an"
"work"". The cover of the magazine featured the famous image of Einstein taken in 1947 by American portrait photographer Philippe Halsman. Runners-up: It was debated whether Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, responsible for World War II, The Holocaust, and the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, should have been made Persons of the Century for their influence in politics. The argument was based on ""Time""'s explicit criterion that the persons chosen should have the greatest impact on this century, for better or worse. In the same 31 December 1999 issue of ""Time"", essayist Nancy Gibbs addressed the topic with the article ""The Necessary"
"Time Person of the Year Person of the Year (called Man of the Year or Woman of the Year until 1999) is an annual issue of the United States news magazine ""Time"" that features and profiles a person, a group, an idea, or an object that ""for better or for worse... has done the most to influence the events of the year"". The tradition of selecting a ""Man of the Year"" began in 1927, with ""Time"" editors contemplating the news makers of the years. The idea was also an attempt to remedy the editorial embarrassment earlier that year of not"
"grand jury, which indicted District Attorney Asa Keyes, later convicted of bribery and sentenced to prison. In 1929 he was elected councilman in the 2nd District, which at that time had its east boundary: at Vermont Avenue, its south boundary at Melrose Avenue and its west boundary at Beverly Glen. He ran for reelection in 1931, when he was living at 1710 North Fairfax Avenue, at the foot of the Hollywood Hills, but lost to James M. Hyde. Access to the ""Los Angeles Times"" links requires the use of a library card. Thomas F. Cooke Thomas F. Cooke (c.1863–1941) was"
"having aviator Charles Lindbergh on its cover following his historic trans-Atlantic flight. By the end of the year, it was decided that a cover story featuring Lindbergh as the Man of the Year would serve both purposes. Since the list began, every serving President of the United States has been a Man or Person of the Year at least once with the exceptions of Calvin Coolidge (in office at time of the first issue), Herbert Hoover (the subsequent U.S. President), and Gerald Ford. Most were named Man or Person of the Year either the year they were elected or while"
"newspaper was vindicated on December 8, 1941. The newspaper was awarded the 1942 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service ""for its successful campaign which resulted in the clarification and confirmation for all American newspapers of the right of free press as guaranteed under the Constitution."" ""L.D. Hotchkiss, Retired Editor of Times, Dies,"" ""Los Angeles Times"", April 17, 1964. L. D. Hotchkiss Loyal Durand “L.D.” Hotchkiss (November 25, 1893 – April 15, 1964) was an American newspaper journalist who served as the editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times. The son of Willis M. and Jan Margaret (Ritchie) Hotchkiss, he was born in"
"""The Atlantic"" for being too much of a pop culture gimmick. A ""New York Daily News"" article named the 2006 award as one of the ten most controversial ""Person of the Year"" moments in the history of ""Time"". However, the news-magazine experienced generally successful sales. While most earlier choices for ""Person of the Year"" have been historically important individuals, many of them infamous rather than internationally popular (Adolf Hitler was 1938's ""Man of the Year"", and Ayatollah Khomeini won in 1979), a few were inanimate. The personal computer was the ""Machine of the Year"" for 1982, while the ""Endangered Earth"""
"""Time"" magazine issue of November 18, 1929. His wife, Kathryn (1887-1937), died on October 31, 1937 at Ossining Hospital after she fell at the Cortlandt, New York end of the Bear Mountain Bridge. The heel of her shoe was caught between two boards and it caused her to fall and break her leg. She wasn't found until nighttime and she died from hypothermia. He remained at his post as Warden of Sing Sing for twenty-one years, instituting reforms, until he retired on July 16, 1941. He was replaced by Robert J. Kirby. Lawes became the president of the Boy Rangers"
"then voted on by the magazine's readers. It also awarded Most Popular Male Star and Most Popular Female Star based on an actor and actress' popularity, not their performance. The awards were based on polling through the 1950s, and then on a vote by the readers, similar to the Gold Medal. Bing Crosby and Greer Garson were frequently named the most popular film stars during the 1940s and later winners of the title included James Stewart, Jane Wyman, Alan Ladd, Marilyn Monroe, Rock Hudson and Kim Novak. Most popular television stars were also named in the 1960s. In 1948, the"
"that it was almost always awarded for heroism in combat. It was presented to Lindbergh by President Coolidge at the White House on . Other noncombat awards of the Medal of Honor were made to naval aviators [[Richard E. Byrd]] and [[Floyd Bennett]], as well as arctic explorer [[Adolphus W. Greely]]. Lindbergh was honored as the first [[Time (magazine)|""Time""]] magazine [[Time Magazine Person of the Year|""Man of the Year""]] when he appeared on that magazine's cover at age 25 , 1928; he remains the youngest Man of the Year ever. The winner of the 1930 Best Woman Aviator of the"
"was one of ten outstanding scientists and industrialists appointed to the newly formed Army Scientific Advisory Panel. Keller received many awards and honors during his lifetime. In 1946, President Truman awarded him the Medal for Merit for his contribution during World War II. In 1954, he received the Air Force Exceptional Service Award. The biggest honor he received occurred in October 1939, when ""Time"" honored Keller by not only writing a feature article about his work with Chrysler, but portraying him on the cover of its magazine. K. T. Keller Kaufman Thuma Keller, commonly known as K. T. Keller (1885–1966),"
"by the poll, but by the magazine's editors. Time Person of the Year Person of the Year (called Man of the Year or Woman of the Year until 1999) is an annual issue of the United States news magazine ""Time"" that features and profiles a person, a group, an idea, or an object that ""for better or for worse... has done the most to influence the events of the year"". The tradition of selecting a ""Man of the Year"" began in 1927, with ""Time"" editors contemplating the news makers of the years. The idea was also an attempt to remedy"
"title was given to Bill Clinton and Ken Starr, which led to outrage from the fans of Foley who mistakenly believed the winner of the poll would be the winner of the title. In 2006, the poll winner by a wide margin was Hugo Chávez, with 35% of the votes. The president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, came in second. ""Time"" again ignored those results, not mentioning them in the announcement of the Person of the Year. ""Time"" continues to annually run an online poll for the ""People's Choice"", but stresses the decision on whom the magazine recognizes is not made"
"the years 1936 to 1941. After being fired from Harper's, he served as an editor for Mademoiselle for eight years. A flamboyant genius and homosexual, he is noted for bringing serious literature to the generally light world of woman's magazines. He was an early sponsor of such diverse literary figures as Truman Capote, Ray Bradbury, Jane Bowles, and Robert Lowry. Davis and several friends, including Gypsy Rose Lee, founded an art commune at 7 Middagh Street in Brooklyn Heights in October 1940. Dubbed February House by Anaïs Nin because so many of its residents had February birthdays, the house became"
"has brought distinction to a great newspaper by living up to his ideal of searching for and presenting the whole truth."" In 1942, Stark won the Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting ""for his distinguished reporting of important labor stories during the year."" Stark married Jennie S. House in 1916. They had one son, Arthur, who at the time of Stark's death was executive secretary of the New York State Mediation Board. Stark died suddenly, only three hours after his wife had telephoned his last editorial to the ""Times"" offices. His obituary and a memorial tribute appeared in the same issue"
"lobby support for the Nationalists' war effort. She drew crowds as large as 30,000 people and in 1943 made the cover of ""TIME"" magazine for a third time. She had earlier appeared on the October 26, 1931 cover alongside her husband and on the January 3, 1937 cover with her husband as ""Man and Wife of the Year"" Both husband and wife were on good terms with ""Time"" magazine senior editor and co-founder Henry Luce, who frequently tried to rally money and support from the American public for the Republic of China. On February 18, 1943, she became the first"
"the first woman to be appointed to the editorial board of the ""Times"". Her dispatches from Europe that year were recognized with the Pulitzer Prize in 1937. In 1939, with World War II imminent, McCormick spent five months in 13 different nations, speaking with both political leaders and ordinary citizens in reporting the growing crisis. She was reported to have spent time with President Franklin D. Roosevelt discussing policy. For her reporting during World War II, the War Department honored McCormick in 1946 with a campaign medal in recognition of ""outstanding and conspicuous service with the armed forces under difficult"
"with greater success on other boards. He lived quietly in Henley-on-Thames, where he indulged his passion for fly fishing, until his death from cerebrovascular disease in 1998. Gordon Newton Sir Gordon Newton (16 September 1907 – 31 August 1998) was a journalist and editor of the Financial Times for 22 years, from 1950 until 1972. He is generally considered to be one of the most successful British newspaper editors of the post-Second World War era. Leslie Gordon Newton (Leslie being his unused Christian name) was the second son of John Newton, a glass merchant, and his wife Edith Sara, ""née"""
"dining companion of Edward Wood, later Lord Halifax, who was Foreign Secretary in the period 1938–1940. He promoted the policies of the Baldwin/Chamberlain governments of the period 1936–1940. Dawson retired in September 1941 and died 7 November 1944 in London. He was succeeded as editor by Robert Barrington-Ward. Geoffrey Dawson George Geoffrey Dawson (25 October 1874 – 7 November 1944) was editor of ""The Times"" from 1912 to 1919 and again from 1923 until 1941. His original last name was Robinson, but he changed it in 1917. He married Hon. Margaret Cecilia Lawley, daughter of Arthur Lawley, 6th Baron Wenlock"
"in 1944 and 1948 but Stevenson defeats him in 1952, becoming the 34th President. Shortly after Stevenson's election in November 1952, ""The Times"", which is owned by the pro-Nazi British Prime Minister Lord Beaverbrook, speculates that Stevenson will follow in Roosevelt's footsteps and pursue an interventionist foreign policy regarding European affairs. Several weeks later, President-elect Stevenson gives a speech indicating that he intends to begin trading with the Soviet Union upon taking office on January 20, 1953. The writer Gore Vidal, who admired and supported Stevenson, based a main character in his 1960 Broadway play ""The Best Man"" on Stevenson."
"candidate than Albert Einstein. The selections were ultimately based on what the magazine describes as who they believed had a stronger influence on history and who represented either the year or the century the most. According to ""Time"", Rudolph Giuliani was selected for symbolizing the American response to the September 11th attacks, and Albert Einstein selected for representing a century of scientific exploration and wonder. Another controversial choice was the 2006 selection of ""You"", representing most if not all people for advancing the information age by using the Internet (via e.g. blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and Wikipedia). In 1941, the fictional"
"taken by the Germans from 1941 to 1942. Soviet military industrial output also had increased substantially from late 1941 to early 1943 after Stalin had moved factories well to the east of the front, safe from German invasion and air attack. In Allied countries, Stalin was increasingly depicted in a positive light over the course of the war. In 1941, the London Philharmonic Orchestra performed a concert to celebrate his birthday, and in 1942, ""Time"" magazine named him ""Man of the Year"". When Stalin learned that people in Western countries affectionately called him ""Uncle Joe"" he was initially offended, regarding"
"get your help in identifying your very best young men. We need the smartest young stars you’ve got. And don’t even think of passing off older men or second-raters. I’m asking the same thing of every major company in the country, and I’ll be watching very closely how well your men do compared to the best young men from all the other corporation. God forbid the people you pick are less than the best because God, President Roosevelt, and I would never, ever forgive you.”"" In 1942, Weinberg was promoted to the position of assistant to the chairman of the"
"Louis Stark Louis Stark (May 1, 1888 – May 17, 1954) was a Hungarian-born American journalist. He spent most of his career working as an economic reporter for ""The New York Times"". He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1942. He is considered ""a pioneer in the field of labor reporting."" Harry S. Truman called him the ""dean of all reporters on the labor scene."" Stark was born on May 1, 1888, in Tibolddaróc, Hungary. He was the son of Adolph Stark and Rose (Kohn) Stark, and moved with them to the United States when he was two years old. The"
"star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (the first author-reporter to be given this honour), which was paid for by his friends in advance and placed at 6879 Hollywood Boulevard. In 2009, in recognition of over 60 years of covering the entertainment business for the Associated Press, the Publicists Guild awarded him its Lifetime Achievement Award. Bob Thomas (reporter) Robert Joseph Thomas (January 26, 1922 – March 14, 2014) was an American Hollywood film industry biographer and reporter who worked for the Associated Press from 1944. As of 2014, he was twice listed in the ""Guinness World Records"", for the"
"Brooks Atkinson Justin Brooks Atkinson (November 28, 1894 – January 14, 1984) was an American theatre critic. He worked for ""The New York Times"" from 1925 to 1960. In his obituary, the ""Times"" called him ""the theater's most influential reviewer of his time."" A war correspondent during World War II, he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for his work as the Moscow correspondent for the ""Times"". Atkinson was born in Melrose, Massachusetts to Jonathan H. Atkinson, a salesman statistician and Garafelia Taylor. As a boy, he printed his own newspaper (using movable type), and planned a career in journalism."
"to Tolischus. This on-going contact continued until Tolischus was sent to the United States as part of a prisoner exchange in 1942. Based on his experience as a journalist, Tolischus wrote three books on World War II: Tolischus was a member of the ""Times"" editorial board until his retirement in 1964. He died of cancer in 1967. Otto D. Tolischus Otto David Tolischus (November 20, 1890 – February 24, 1967) was a Prussian-Lithuanian-born journalist for the ""New York Times"" and winner of the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence for his writing in Berlin during World War II. Born in Russ,"
"of the company. From 1923 to 1942, he had moved to East Orange, New Jersey and worked in New York City as the manager of literature for the New York Life Insurance Company. His wife died in 1937. On March 14, 1940, he married Elsie Martha Wolcott. They lived in Maplewood, New Jersey. Story was the editor of the company's employee magazine, the ""Mutual Circle"", from 1942 to 1946. He was a member of the Republican Party, the Sons of the American Revolution, the Authors League of America, and was a Mason. At his death, he lived in the borough"
"tell the news through people, and for many decades, the magazine's cover depicted a single person. More recently, ""Time"" has incorporated ""People of the Year"" issues which grew in popularity over the years. Notable mentions of them were Barack Obama, Steve Jobs, etc. The first issue of ""Time"" was published on March 3, 1923, featuring Joseph G. Cannon, the retired Speaker of the House of Representatives, on its cover; a facsimile reprint of Issue No. 1, including all of the articles and advertisements contained in the original, was included with copies of the February 28, 1938 issue as a commemoration"
"a public elementary school. He died on July 30, 1917 at the home of his son-in-law, Harry Chandler. Harrison Gray Otis (publisher) Harrison Gray Otis (February 10, 1837 – July 30, 1917) was the president and general manager of the Times-Mirror Company, publisher of the ""Los Angeles Times"". Otis was born near Marietta, Ohio, on February 10, 1837, the son of Stephen and Sally (Dyar) Otis. His father was from Vermont and his mother, a native of Nova Scotia, Canada, came to Ohio from Boston, Massachusetts, with her family. The young Otis received schooling until he was fourteen, when he"
"musical of the same name, starring Lauren Bacall (who won a Tony Award for her work). Woman of the Year Woman of the Year is a 1942 American romantic comedy-drama film starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. The film was written by Ring Lardner Jr., Michael Kanin, and John Lee Mahin, directed by George Stevens, and produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The film's plot is ostensibly about the relationship between Tess Harding—an international affairs correspondent, chosen ""Woman of the Year""—and Sam Craig—a sportswriter—who meet, marry, and encounter problems as a result of her unflinching commitment to her work. In 1999,"
"on to ""Time"" and ""Sports Illustrated"" magazines and authoring true-crime books. Hired as literary editor in 1955 was Hoke Norris, who also covered the civil-rights movement for the ""Sun-Times"". Jerome Holtzman became a member of the ""Chicago Sun"" sports department after first being a copy boy for the ""Daily News"" in the 1940s. He and Edgar Munzel, another longtime sportswriter for the paper, both would end up honored by the Baseball Hall of Fame. Famed for his World War II exploits, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin made the ""Sun-Times"" his home base in 1962. The following year, Mauldin drew"