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Epic & Titillating. If conscience and commitment led Henry Luce into journalism in the first place, his Yankee ancestry drove him hard to do well at it.* "The bitch goddess," he said, "sat in the outer office." With his Yalemate and co-founder of TIME Briton Hadden, Luce realized after World War I that Americans as a nation were more aware than ever of world problems?"but that their knowledge didn't equal their interest." Luce recalled his father's dictum: "The purpose of education is to make a man feel at home in his universe." That, to him, became...
Ever since he took over as publisher in 1962, ambitious Tom Vail, a descendant of Plain Dealer Founder Liberty E. Holden, had been chafing at the management of the bankers and lawyers who run the six trusts controlling the paper. "They are money people, not newspaper people," he complained. "They wanted to diversify." Then along came Newhouse, who had been trying to buy the paper, off and on, for years. In negotiations that were secret even by Newhouse's ultra security-conscious standards, he finally made a $500-a-share offer. The stockholders, who were dissatisfied with the dividends...
Died. Henry Robinson Luce, 68, founder of TIME, LIFE, FORTUNE, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED; of a heart attack; in Phoenix...
...founder and first chairman of the College Scholarship Service, in which about 200 colleges share financial data on student applications...
...vaccine was developed by employees of H. James Rand, a grandson of the founder of Remington Rand Inc., and his Rand Development Corp.* The theory underlying its development was propounded by Dr. Norbert Czajkowski of Detroit's Wayne State University. Patients with advanced cancer have few antibody-forming or other immune mechanisms to combat their disease...