CHAPTER 3 Jane Byrne Burned – Chicago Politics in the 1970s
CHAPTER 3 Jane Byrne Burned - Chicago Politics in the 1970s Subchapters Jane Byrne vs. The Chicago Tribune The Machine Weakens after Daley’s Death Mayor Byrne’s 90-Day Report Card Mayor Jane Byrne’s Secret Transition Report Rob [...]
CHAPTER 2 Becoming a General Counsel
CHAPTER 2 Becoming a General Counsel Subchapters Recruitment by J. Roderick MacArthur Rod MacArthur and The MacArthur Foundation Hiring Lawyers Copyright and Trademark Mastery Hammacher Schlemmer Bradford Then and Now Bradford Exchange and MacArthur [...]
CHAPTER 1 Riots & Rockets – Army Days (1968-1971)
CHAPTER ONE Riots & Rockets - Army Days (1968-1971) Subchapters Riots & Rockets Army Days Map (1968-1971) Family in the Military The Vietnam War Heats Up The Decision to Enlist Fort Holabird and Intelligence Training CIAD [...]
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 [...]
Compton’s Patent R.I.P.—An Afterthought
When the Patent Office reversed course in 1994 and withdrew the patent it had issued just the year before, Britannica challenged the action and brought suit. Years later, a federal district court in Washington, D.C., found the Patent Office [...]
Dr. Stanley Frank, Vice President, Development
Thus, from the beginning, the novel idea of developing an architecture based upon multiple search paths to related information was central to the product. Also fundamental to the design were reciprocal hyperlinks between related data contained in other search [...]
