Editing Time (magazine) (section)

====Milestones====
Since its first issue, ''Time'' has had a "Milestones" section about significant events in the lives of famous people, including births, marriages, divorces, and deaths.<ref>"Milestones". ''Time''. [https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,833816,00.html "June 25, 1965"]. [https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,833816,00.html].</ref><ref>"Milestones 2016". ''Time''. [https://time.com/4598032/milestones-2016/ "December 28, 2016"]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210808182412/https://time.com/4598032/milestones-2016/ |date=August 8, 2021}}.</ref> Until 1967, entries in Milestones were short and formulaic. A typical example from 1956:<ref>"Milestones". ''Time''. [https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,824154,00.html "March 26, 1956"]. [https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,824154,00.html].</ref>
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'''Died'''. Lieut, (j.g.) [[David Browning|David Greig ("Skippy") Browning Jr.]], 24, star of the 1952 Olympics as the U.S.'s dazzling three-meter diving champion, national collegiate one-and three-meter diving champ (1951–52); in the crash of a North American FJ-3 Fury jet fighter while on a training flight; near Rantoul, Kans.
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A reader wrote a parody of the older form to announce the change:<ref>Betsy Tremont, Letter to the Editor, in "A Letter from the Publisher". ''Time''. [https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,837356,00.html "October 13, 1967]". [https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,837356,00.html].</ref>
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'''Died'''. Time's delightful but confusing habit of listing names, ages, claims to fame, and other interesting tidbits about the famous newly deceased in its Milestones notices; then the circumstances of, and places where, the deaths occurred; of apparent good sentence structure; in New York.
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