Word: luce
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After his withdrawal from Time Inc., Luce's pastor, Dr. Read, noted "a strange peace and completeness at this point in his dynamic and turbulent career." Neither unconditioned peace nor unequivocal completeness would ever be signal qualities of his magazines, and that, perhaps, was Harry Luce's best legacy to journalism...
...Presses around the world last week turned out 14,331,458 copies of Time Inc.'s four major magazines?TIME, LIFE, FORTUNE and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED?and their international editions. * Newspaper obituaries parroted a quote from an unnamed "friend" of Luce: "He is a dreamer, with a keen sense of double-entry bookkeeping." In fact, the remark was used by Harpo Marx to describe Alexander Woollcott...
That description of TIME's birth was the last piece Harry Luce wrote for publication.* And his matter-of-fact summary of what he found in the first issue was what might be said about his own life: it held together, it made sense, it was interesting...
...Luce's life was marked by an extraordinary inner consistency. His profound curiosity seems to have been with him from the start. His intellectual style, the way he arrived at ideas and put them into practice?a process often awesome in its intensity?hardly changed over a career that spanned 45 years. Even what he wrote in college rang no note of dissonance with the utterances of his later life. His deeply felt views about religion, country, freedom and society, though they broadened and became more complex, seemed to be present in microcosm during his childhood...
...Presbyterian missionaries, the Rev. Henry Winters Luce and Elizabeth Root Luce, he was born and spent the first 14 years of his life in Shantung, the home province of Confucius. From his parents, he absorbed the Calvinist faith and the love of his homeland that were to influence his whole life. Before he was six, he stood on a stool in the mission compound and preached a sermon to the assembled amahs and their children. He later said that he could never remember a time when he did not know all about the U.S. Constitution...