Yale Daily Coups
We’re beyond jazzed about The Man Time Forgot, Y2K YDN editor-in-chief Isaiah Wilner’s fun-formative romp through Time Inc.’s heady all-Ivy Twenties days.
The book details how Time co-founder Henry Luce stole all the credit and company shares for the magazine from Skull and Bones brother Briton Hadden … on Hadden’s deathbed, no less. It’s like This Side of Paradise without all the shit subplots and pro-Princeton superfluity! (This, despite David Propson calling The Man a “first book, and it shows” in a hilarious New York Observer review.)
This seems as good a time as ever to recap Wilner’s own shady history with journalistic ethics. Turns out Wilner was forced out of his YDN editorship for his alleged involvement in New Haven voter fraud! According to an October 1999 Rumpus “Remedial Media,” Wilner ran a week’s worth of puff pieces on his roommate Asit Gosar’s aldermanic campaign. Then Wilner minimized city section coverage of his roomie’s election chicanery, which involved Wilner and Gosar telling members of Pierson and Davenport College to vote for Gosar under their residential college addresses (as opposed to their real, off-campus ones in another ward). And Wilner recused himself from office only after Gosar’s opponent demanded a recount. For an abridged version, see this 1999 Yale Alumni Magazine short-take. Rumpus lovingly chronicled other charming encounters with Wilner here, here, and, oh, here.
We cite The Book of Isaiah Wilner 3:16: Time may forget men, but Google does not.
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October 2nd, 2006 at 12:06 pm
screw this shit! it’s nobel week, get on that. two dudes from, of all places, stanford (bleh, but okay) and the (what!?) UMass medical school of worcester just took the prize for medicine! how will the ivies fare?