Briton Hadden, cofounder of Time magazine, was the genius behind the style of writing Time introduced in 1923. During the magazine's first three years of publication, Hadden edited every word of copy, and it was he who was responsible for the active verbs, the compound adjectives, the middle names, the inverted sentences, all designed to enliven the news that he and Henry R. Luce had culled from daily papers and repackaged into the first weekly newsmagazine. The slogan of Time for many years was "Curt, Concise, Complete," and it was Hadden's editing that accomplished the first two goals. He often pared news items to as few as three lines, seldom more than one hundred lines, and in doing so he created a distinctive style of writing others called "Timestyle." Unfortunately, Hadden did not live long enough to reap the benefits of his daring journalistic efforts. He died of a...