Word: luce
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Given his background, it was natural that when named managing editor of TIME by Co-Founder Henry Luce, he regarded his job much like a military command. He was a great commander: tough, decisive, but always fair and humane. The managing editor of TIME is responsible for everything that appears in the magazine, for how the magazine shapes its picture of the world each week, and Alex relished that responsibility. His editing pencil raced across the copy, deleting, adding, transposing, scribbling questions in the margin. When the phone interrupted him, he would always answer it himself, avoiding the wasted word...
Then White traces his routes, first as a stringer graduated to reporter for Time Magazine's Henry Luce, stationed in China to cover the Japanese invasion. Later he covered both the rise of the Chinese Communist Party and the action of World War II. After disillusionment with Time's bias for Chiang K'ai-shek and a fight with Luce, White broke away from time and co-wrote a bestseller, Thunder Out of China (1946), dealing directly with what Time attempted to ignore...
Covering religion in depth has been a special charge of TIME since the magazine began in 1923 and Co-Founder Henry Luce wrote that religious currents were "more important perhaps than Farm Blocs or youthful novelists, [and] are lost sight of by the reader of the daily press. TIME will at least make an attempt to follow them...
...stunned, and prompted TIME'S third cover story on the papacy and the Roman Catholic Church in two months. Whoever is elected as John Paul's successor, and wherever he leads his church, TIME will report on the man and his achievements with the vigor that Henry Luce, half a century ago, felt they deserved...
DIED. William S. Schlamm, 74, Polish-born writer and a former Communist who turned into a staunch conservative during the 1930s; of a heart attack; on Sept. 1, in Salzburg. Immigrating to the U.S. before World War II, Schlamm served as an editor of FORTUNE and assistant to Henry Luce in the 1940s, and in the 1950s helped create and edit National Review. Returning to Europe, he founded his own political magazine, Zeitbuhne, in West Germany...