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Between the founding of TIME and the day that its 2,295th issue appeared on the newsstands, Henry Luce built the world's largest, most influential publishing enterprise.* "The magazines that bear his stamp," said Lyndon Johnson last week, "are an authentic part of life in America." As hundreds of tributes from the U.S. and foreign countries attested, the publications that Luce created and nurtured have also become a valued and trusted voice of America throughout the free world...
...survive: FORTUNE had walked in on the Great Depression. As a later FORTUNE managing editor, Eric Hodgins, put it: "Almost on the eve of FORTUNE's publication, the whole of the economy of the U.S. clapped a hand over its heart, uttered a piercing scream, and slipped on the largest banana peel since Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations." Yet, surprisingly, the magazine prospered in that dramatically inopportune time. Even at $1 a copy?then an unheard-of price for a magazine?businessmen bought FORTUNE with amazing regularity...
...years during and after the war, Luce played an active part in the editorial direction of the magazines, sitting in frequently as managing editor of TIME. Time Inc. emerged from the war with a team of correspondents who eventually became the TIME-LIFE News Service, the world's largest magazine news-gathering operation. It set up a TIME-LIFE International division to publish both magazines abroad...
...tremendous interest and participation if sport did not correspond to some important elements?something deeply inherent?in the human spirit. Man is an animal that works, plays and prays. No important aspect of human life should be devalued." The result was SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, which had the largest initial circulation (450,000) in magazine history and has since climbed to 1,250,000 circulation...
...reach for the company that publishes the Los Angeles Times to acquire a Manhattan-based magazine. But for the past six years, the Times Mirror has gone on a shopping spree, snatching up publishing companies right and left. Today, the Times Mirror is one of the nation's largest publishers of paperback books; it also puts out Bibles and dictionaries, art and medical books, airline flight manuals, slide rules and even service-station road maps. It publishes the San Bernardino (Calif.) Sun and Evening Telegram and, south of Los Angeles, the Orange Coast Daily Pilot. According to Times Mirror...