Thornton Leigh Hunt 1860s. Hunt was also editor of "The Spectator" from around 1859 to January 1861. James Buchanan was at that time President of the United States and was attempting to counter civil war over the issue of slavery, mostly by adopting a vacillatory position. Two Americans based in London - a businessman called John McHenry and an Assistant Secretary to ambassador George M. Dallas, called Benjamin Moran - determined to use the magazine as a counter to the generally anti-Buchanan position of the British press. Hunt had assisted Robert Stephen Rintoul at "The Spectator" and appears to have stayed on after
Outside (magazine) Outside (magazine) Outside is an American magazine focused on the outdoors. The first issue of "Outside" was published in September 1977. Outside's founders were Jann Wenner (the first editor in chief), William Randolph Hearst III (its first managing editor), and Jack Ford (an assistant to founding publisher Donald Welsh and a son of former U.S. President Gerald Ford). Wenner sold "Outside" to current owner Lawrence J. Burke two years later. Burke merged it into his magazine "Mariah" (founded in 1976) and after a period of using the name "Mariah/Outside" kept the "Outside" name for the merged magazine. "Outside" launched the