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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Streams of Memos. Luce formally retired as Editor in Chief of Time Inc. in 1964. Nonetheless, he had neither the temperament nor the inclination to abandon his lifelong interest in the affairs of America, the world?and his magazines. On frequent trips around the U.S. and abroad, he eagerly quizzed TIME correspondents about the stories they were working on, made frequent speeches, questioned statesmen and cab drivers with equal pertinacity, meanwhile keeping up a steady flow of memos to his editors in New York?the last of which arrived a few hours after his death...
...systematic in its coverage. It packaged the news of the week into departments, hired researchers to provide background, and soon began to develop what came to be known as TIMEstyle. This was a fresh, sassy and sometimes impudent way of writing marked by double adjectives, alliteration, inverted sentences and frequent neologisms. Hadden was the chief inventor of TIMEstyle, and he peppered the young magazine with it. TIME called George Bernard Shaw "mocking, mordant, misanthropic," and Erich von Ludendorff "flagitious, inscrutable, unrelenting." It coined "Mussoliniland" for Italy and called drugstores "omnivenderous." When Red Grange appeared on TIME's cover...
...help him frame an unusual question: How would you ask the Emperor how it felt to be a mortal and no longer revered as a god? He himself then proceeded to frame the question, simply and in a dignified manner that robbed it of any impertinence. He was a frequent visitor at the White House, particularly during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and he never lost a certain awe of the office of the presidency...
...three rival groups of Red Guards that he had summoned to the Great Hall in order to get them to merge. "Your methods of struggle against your leaders not only make it impossible for them to work but also for them to remain healthy." Chou was incensed at the frequent Red Guard abuses of government and party officials, who have been the prime targets for China's rebellious youth since the Maoist "revolution" began last year...
...last week in Peoria, it was also clear that reporters could leave and return during sessions as long as they did not stampede. After five days of effort, not a single juror had been empaneled., while 121 had been dismissed. Many objected to the death penalty, but the most frequent reason for rejection was the "clouding of impartial judgement" by pretrial publicity...