Word: luce
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have read every issue of TIME almost from its beginning. I always wished I could meet Mr. Luce, though I never expected to. But I read about him and about his activities, and I considered him one of the influential...
...sure, appreciates more than does TIME the fact that life is what great individuals make it. The greatest are those, like Mr. Luce, who create something bigger than themselves as personalities-something that possesses, in effect, immortality. Usually it is an idea. In the case of Mr. Luce, it has been the infinite appreciation of, devotion to and development of the English language as the most powerful, most subtle, most beautiful, most versatile language in the world...
...often lamented that America has no ideology to offer the world. I submit that in his contribution to a 1964 symposium on food and civilization, Mr. Luce formulated not an ideology but a set of ideals attainable by the rest of the world, not under the yoke of the U.S. but by its side. Wrote Mr. Luce...
...Henry R. Luce, of New York, New York, declare this to be my last will and testament." As with the will of any successful man, the 22-page document filed in New York County Surrogate's Court last week was complex and lengthened by terms of trusts and the powers of the trustees named to administer them. But the effect of it was to make the Henry Luce Foundation, which was set up in 1936 in honor of Luce's father, Henry Winters Luce, the principal beneficiary of the $110 million estate. In the past, the foundation...
...Luce left 149,465 shares of Time Inc. common stock, which closed the week at $108 a share, to the foundation. Another 540,000 shares, owned by a trust created in 1961, were vested in the foundation on Luce's death. Since the foundation already owned 191,029 shares, it will, with a total of 880,494 shares, control 12.7% of the common stock and constitute the largest single voting block. Its members include Luce's two sons, Henry III, who is president, and Peter Paul; Luce's sister, Elisabeth Luce Moore, and her husband Maurice...