CHAPTER 5 Inventing the Future—Encyclopaedia Britannica
Chapter 5 Inventing the Future—Encyclopaedia Britannica Who would have guessed that at the end of the 20th century it would be a company founded in Scotland in 1768 that would invent a key part of the mechanics that would [...]
CHAPTER 4 Before the Deluge—United Press International
Chapter 4 Before the Deluge—United Press International After I left The Bradford Exchange in 1983, I briefly settled back into the private practice of law. Joining several of my former Roan & Grossman partners as Of Counsel, I worked [...]
CHAPTER 3 Jane Byrne Burned – Chicago Politics in the 1970s
Chapter 3 Jane Byrne Burned—Chicago Politics in the 1970s In June 1980, as Jane Byrne was starting her second year as Chicago’s first woman mayor, a strange media brouhaha briefly transfixed the city. She had become enraged at a [...]
CHAPTER 2 Becoming a General Counsel
Chapter 2 Becoming a General Counsel Iput the Army in my rear-view mirror at the beginning of the 1970s and got busy. It was an eventful decade. I returned to work as a lawyer, this time for the newly [...]
CHAPTER 1 Riots & Rockets – Army Days (1968-1971)
Chapter 1 Riots & Rockets—Army Days (1968-1971) After Army Intelligence School training at Fort Holabird in Baltimore, I was assigned to the 902nd Military Intelligence Group. Its headquarters occupied office space above stores in a Bailey’s Crossroads, Virginia, strip [...]
Appendix 2 – The Building of Britannica Online
The Building of Britannica Online By Robert McHenry Former Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopaedia Britannica Introduction Had someone back about 1985 phrased his question, wittingly or not, “Has the Britannica been digitized yet?” the answer would have been “Yes, and in fact [...]
Appendix 1 – Excerpts from Encyclopaedia Britannica Petition for a Writ of Certiorari in the Supreme Court of the United States
QUESTIONS PRESENTED In the 1980s, Petitioner Encyclopaedia Britannica (“Britannica”) developed a pioneering multimedia search system that, for the first time, was able to search through vast amounts of multimedia information and display this information in a user-friendly manner. [...]
Acknowledgments
This book could not have been written without the help and support of family, friends, and colleagues at The Cliff Dwellers club in Chicago. My wife Cathy without complaint stoically put up with my being glued to a keyboard [...]
A Look Back from Encyclopaedia Britannica
Looking back on my Encyclopaedia Britannica days, when I departed United Press International after its bankruptcy, UPI was fortunately headed towards a reorganization and not a liquidation. Though I had been with UPI only two years, it had directly [...]
