CHAPTER 5 Inventing the Future—Encyclopaedia Britannica
CHAPTER 5 Inventing the Future—Encyclopaedia Britannica Subchapters A Milestone in Evolution of the Human/Machine Interface The Proper Study of Mankind The Encyclopædia Britannica First Edition The Encyclopedist’s Art William Benton, EB Owner and Publisher Robert Hutchins, [...]
CHAPTER 4 Before the Deluge—United Press International
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 into Bankruptcy Ruhe and Geissler [...]
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 [...]
