CHAPTER 4 Before the Deluge—United Press International
Buy Book CHAPTER 4: Before the Deluge—United Press International Subchapters Transitioning to United Press International UPI—Second Banana to the Associated Press Moving to Nashville as UPI Assistant General Counsel UPI Begins Its Descent [...]
CHAPTER 3 Jane Byrne Burned – Chicago Politics in the 1970s
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CHAPTER 2 Becoming a General Counsel
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CHAPTER 1 Riots & Rockets – Army Days (1968-1971)
CHAPTER 1: 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 [...]
Appendix 2 – The Building of Britannica Online
Buy Book 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 [...]
Appendix 1 – Excerpts from Encyclopaedia Britannica Petition for a Writ of Certiorari in the Supreme Court of the United States
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Acknowledgments
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A Look Back from Encyclopaedia Britannica
Acknowledgements 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 [...]
Compton’s Patent R.I.P.—An Afterthought
Next 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 [...]
