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...almost any measure, White House Years is a big book. Thirty months in the writing, it runs 1,521 pages, close to three-quarters of a million words. Little, Brown, the Time Inc. subsidiary that owns North American rights to the book, plans a publication date of Oct. 23 and a first edition of 225,000 copies, an exceptionally large number. The price...
...Larsen eventually found a congenial home at Time Inc. He stayed for 56 years, until his retirement last spring as vice chairman. After Briton Hadden died of a blood infection in 1929, Larsen became Luce's right hand in all matters of business. He was LIFE'S first publisher, the godfather of the radio and film March of Time series and the longest tenured president of Time Inc. (1939 to 1960). With the exceptions only of Luce and Hadden, Roy Edward Larsen, who died last week at 80, was the person most responsible for the destiny of Tune...
Larsen was a gracious, inquisitive and gentle man who accommodated himself to Luce's abrupt and sometimes difficult style. Said Time Inc. Chairman Andrew Heiskell: "Roy fitted himself to Luce's personality and complemented it totally...
...years of Larsen's presidency at Time Inc. were marked by steady growth. Among other projects, he guided the launching of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED in 1954. Larsen and Luce once thought of making 45 the mandatory retirement age at the firm, but settled on the customary 65. Larsen became the only executive to be exempt from that rule (Luce retired from active management upon turning 66, three years before his death in 1967). In later years Larsen became a source of thoughtful counsel and new ideas. He kept himself avidly well informed. Says TIME-LIFE Films President Bruce Paisner...
Under licensing agreements with the Federal government, Nuclear Fuel Services Inc., the company which operates the plant, had to report any uranium loss of 19.8 pounds or more and shut down for an inventory within 72 hours...