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Died. Charles Revson, 68, autocratic board chairman of Revlon, Inc., who helped create the $5 billion U.S. beauty industry; of cancer; in Manhattan (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS...
Died. John Shaw Billings, 77, former managing editor of TIME (1933-36), first managing editor of LIFE (1936-44) and later editorial director of all Time Inc. magazines; of kidney failure and pneumonia; in Augusta, Ga. (see THE PRESS...
John Shaw Billings was only mildly enthusiastic when Editor Henry R. Luce told a group of Time Inc. executives over lunch one day in 1936 about his idea for a new kind of magazine devoted to pictures. Billings, then managing editor of TIME, was too busy running the nation's first weekly newsmagazine to give the new project much thought. But nine months later, Luce called him in to say that the experiment was a shambles and that he wanted Billings to take it over. There was one little problem: the first issue was scheduled to go to press...
With the energy and decisiveness that stamped his 27-year career at Time Inc., Billings got that historic first issue of LIFE to the newsstands on time. The entire press run of 466,000 copies sold out within hours, and virtually overnight LIFE became what was then the most successful magazine in publishing history. When death, as it must to all men, came to John Billings last week at 77, that accomplishment was not forgotten...
Billings was a tall, quiet, intensely private man whose gentle manner masked a steel will. He served as managing editor of LIFE until 1944, when, with the magazine's circulation over 4 million, he became Luce's deputy as editorial director of the four Time Inc. publications then: TIME, LIFE, ARCHITECTURAL FORUM and FORTUNE. Illness forced his retirement in 1955, and he returned to Redcliffe. As LIFE'S first managing editor, Billings was more responsible than anyone else for inventing the genre of photojournalism. Recalled Edward K. Thompson, managing editor of LIFE from...