Word: luce
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mather, and Harlow Shapley among these at "Harvard . . . noted in the east for its stable of professors who frequently come out from behind their books to toe the communist party line, perhaps absent mindedly." Lyons produces evidence such as the anti-communist articles Professor Schlesinger has written for Henry Luce to spotlight the absurdity of the Tribune's assertions. In another article headlined "Red Teaching at Harvard is Insidious" the Tribune attacked Granville Hicks '23 and Felix Frankfurter '06, neither of whom as Lyons points out, have been at Harvard for ten years...
Died. Elizabeth Root Luce, 77, widow of the late Dr. Henry Winters Luce, prominent missionary educator in China (1897-1926), and mother of Henry R. Luce, editor-in-chief of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE; after a long illness; in Haverford...
...School students, incensed over a recent statement in Yale-controlled Life Magazine, have challenged the Eli football coach to a gastronomical contest. The remark, contained in the Luce publication's pale blue appraisal of the nation's new coaches, said, "Herman Hickman can eat more than any two men alive...
...give capsule reviews of the film such as "This stinks." But I am also referring more generally to that great new indoor sport called "Pinning the Tail on Orson," which was conceived by "Life" magazine. Its approach to the film was exceedingy unfair and just another proof that Mr. Luce's big, slobbering monster ought to have its claws trimmed and its pants changed before being let into the parlor...
Would Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt be acceptable to him as a running-mate (as suggested fortnight ago by Republican Clare Boothe Luce*)? Of course, of course. What else could he be expected...