Then the London Sunday Times, usually a forum for bloody foreign reporting or high fashion, began commissioning short fiction of its own from such authors as Lionel Shriver and Ben Okri.

Ruth Orkin was in Florence in the early 1950s when she met Jinx Allen, whom she asked to be the subject of a picture Ms. Orkin wanted to submit to the Herald Tribune.

At the start of Friday's session on global go-to-market strategies at the 2013 Fortune global Forum, moderator Geoff Colvin asked the audience for two shows of hands.