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...technique in a variegated sequence of flawless, aerial turns. A visual feast of old golds and blues. Initials is a dazzlingly mounted tribute from a gifted choreographer to four gifted virtuosi. In their performances, R., B., M.and E. (and H. too) more than pay back the tribute. John T. Elson...
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...even as LIFE lay dying SPORTS ILLUSTRATED was moving into its most prosperous years. Elson recounts the birth pangs of the magazine, the last one Luce had a direct hand in founding. Despite the fact that he knew little about sports, Luce maintained his enthusiasm and support for SI, even though the magazine lost $6,000,000 in its first year and took more than five years to get into the black...
Autonomy. Magazines, like human beings, go through demanding phases. But the Time Inc. publications, Elson says, were constantly rethinking their roles. The end of World War II was a particularly thoughtful period for FORTUNE. During the war, industrial advertising had caused the magazine to "bulge like a lady carrying twins," as one former publisher put it. Those ads dried up by 1946, putting the magazine into the red. But after 1948 FORTUNE became more profitable and functional with pertinent features and such regular departments as Law and Labor...
...times had changed-and so had Time Inc. Elson skillfully develops the contrast between the innocent gusto with which its magazines threw themselves into the war effort after Pearl Harbor, and the gradually chastening complexities of postwar and cold-war politics. In his last years, Luce, the author of The American Century, worked hard to alter the more simplistic aspects of his patriotism. The result was a more universal theme for his last crusade: the American support and promotion of international law. It was the natural extension of his editorial conscience...