"You must forgive me," wrote the editor of the Illustrated London News under a picture of a snow-maned old man frowning across his desk, "if I have been ill advised in publishing the photograph shown above." Thus, reluctantly allowing his picture to appear in I.L.N.'s pages last week, 82-year-old Sir Bruce S. Ingram marked his 60th anniversary as editor of the world's oldest (118) picture magazine.
Founded when the Union Jack fluttered from Surrey to Singapore, the Illustrated London News has survived and prospered as the embers of empire flickered. Main credit for...
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