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Starting in 1942 as a correspondent in TIME'S Washington bureau, Shepley later distinguished himself for wartime reporting in Europe and the Pacific and, in 1948, became the youngest Washington bureau chief ever. Nine years later, he was named chief of the U.S. and Canadian news service. Moving over to the business side in late 1960, he spent three years as assistant publisher of LIFE and another three as publisher of FORTUNE before returning to TIME as publisher. During his stewardship, TIME'S circulation has grown 20% to its present 5,300,000, and advertising revenues have climbed...
...years. Born in New York City, Hank Luce took his B.A. at Yale in 1948, following three years in the Navy, in which he served aboard a destroyer escort in the Pacific. After becoming a reporter for the Cleveland Press, he joined TIME'S Washington bureau in 1951 as a correspondent, and two years later transferred to New York as a writer in the NATIONAL AFFAIRS section, where he wrote cover stories on House Speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr., Wisconsin's Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, and the then Vice President, Richard Nixon...
After almost three years of writing, Hank Luce moved on to a wide variety of jobs. He played a major role in planning and supervising the construction of the new Time & Life Building, served as circulation director of FORTUNE, director of corporate research and development, London bureau chief for TIME and, since April 1968, publisher of FORTUNE. With it all, says Luce, "I've spent more years at TIME than in any other part of the company. It is, of course, the origin of the company, the first magazine, the great flagship of the group. It is very exciting...
...Hello," the reporter would say sternly, "this is Lieutenant Murphy from the Detective Bureau. We have a report of a shooting at this address. Is it true?. . . Is he dead? . . . Four times in the head, huh? . . . Who shot him? . . . You did? . . . Now get hold of yourself, dear. Why did you do it? . . . Messin' with another woman, huh? . . . Did you catch 'em in bed or something? . . . Were they naked? . . . What did your boy friend do for a livin'? . . .A laborer, huh? O.K., the squad car will be right there. Goodbye...
...change shows at the Detective Bureau press room. The Sun-Times' Walter Spirko and the Tribune's Johnny Paster, among the last of the 30-year veterans, are still there. Otherwise, except for the "City News kid," the place is virtually deserted during the late-night dog watch. "Everything's changed," says Paster. "Ever since the riots at the convention, the cops are very leary about talking to us. I've put in for early retirement next year. Things aren't like they used to be." "Yeah," says Spirko. "We used to cabaret around with...