Word: luce
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Luce's fabled concentration was a function of his jealousy of wasted time. For the same reason, he was a ruthless enemy of small talk-it bored him, and he made little effort to hide the fact. To forestall chitchat, his most effective weapon was the wild-swinging question. Many a correspondent and editor sitting with him at dinner has been hit by some such query as: "Do you think Los Angeles makes any sense?" After a visitation from Luce, one correspondent reported that he was left "intellectually black and blue." Harry's whole life, one editor aptly...
...intellectual rigor and impatience with time wasters gave Luce the reputation, among those who did not know him, of having no sense of humor and ice water in his veins. But neither was the case. Witness the day that he was sitting in the office of a bureau chief when the door burst open and a member of the staff came whooping in, bottle in hand, tripped on the sill and fell full-length in front of the Editor in Chief. The bureau chief explained to his startled boss that the young man was celebrating the birth...
...Luce put up with a great deal from his staff in other respects. Time and again he was attacked for some position taken by his magazines. Often enough it was a position on which he had not been consulted and with which he might well disagree. Under such circumstances, it would not have been difficult for a proprietor to disown a story. But he always accepted full responsibility for everything-as he expected his subordinates to do all down the chain of command...
Essentially and always, Luce was a reporter and writer and editor like ourselves, and for this we warmed to him and looked to him and trusted him. And he did us. "I am proud to be with you, and I am proud that you are with me," he once told a group of us. "And there is only this self-flattery in that statement: if a man is known by the company he keeps, then this is the company which in my life I have managed to keep, and this is the company by which I would like...
...journalist," he once said, "I am ? in command of a small sector in the very front trenches of this battle for freedom." For Henry Robinson Luce, the battle ended last week. On the 44th anniversary of TIME's first issue, America's greatest maker of magazines died in Phoenix of a coronary occlusion...