Word: luce
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Black (by Ivan Goff & Ben Roberts; produced by David Lowe & Edgar F. Luckenbach) quickly lets the audience know that the San Francisco shipping magnate, Matt Talbot, didn't die the natural death people supposed he did: he was done in by his wife and her lover (Claire Luce* and Donald Cook). Then it quickly lets the murderers know, by means of a taunting anonymous letter, that they aren't quite getting away with it: someone is hep to their deed...
What ought a Christian to mean by "the church"? Speaking before the Chicago Church Federation, TIME & LIFE Editor Henry Robinson Luce joined the growing ranks of Protestants who are raising this pertinent question. This week, the Christian Century published Layman Luce's speech. Excerpts: , "Between us and the early church is the obvious difference that we Christians have become a great thing in the world. They were the leaven in the lump; we have become the lump. ... If today the laws of human society are not in conformity with the will of God, we cannot say that...
...plain people. Some 20,000 Clevelanders attended the Institute's five sessions. Newspapers and radio chains carried the speeches to millions throughout the country. Cleveland high-school students in forums of their own discussed the questions raised at the Institute. Said TIME'S Editor Henry R. Luce: "A meeting like this is the commonest thing in the communal life of America -it is also the very core and pattern of our body politic, each of us, with due humility, a sacred individual, all of us, proudly, members one of another...
...pleader for its action to halt Japanese aggression. At San Francisco he was the first to sign the U.N. Charter (he used a brush to write the Chinese characters of his name: Ku Wei-chun). Yale-trained Dr. Koo is the man TIME'S Editor Henry R. Luce will introduce in opening discussion of the Far East and Pacific...
...only $1,500 a page, based on a 250,000-a-week guarantee. When circulation shot over a million in four months, advertisers crowded aboard for a free ride. The cost of printing 750,000 unexpected copies far exceeded the revenue from advertising and circulation. Editor Henry R. Luce had earmarked $1,000,000 of Time Inc. money "to see LIFE to success or into an honorable grave"-but before rates were adjusted, $5,000,000 had been spent to keep LIFE from dying of success...