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...following year, she hooked up with Arlene Francis for the daily hour-long show, ?Home.? Arlene was already a TV celebrity as a panelist on ?What?s My Line.? But she had been on Broadway since 1936, when she appeared in the original production of Clare Boothe Luce?s ?The Women?; and in 1945 she starred briefly in the comedy ?The French Touch? - sets designed by George Jenkins...
...This is a war for talent," says Carolyn Buck Luce, a partner at the accounting firm Ernst & Young, who co-chairs the task force. Over the past 20 years, half of new hires at Ernst & Young have been women, she notes, and the firm is eager not only to keep them but to draw back those who have left to tend their children. This spring Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu will launch a Personal Pursuits program, allowing above-average performers to take up to five years of unpaid leave for personal reasons. Though most benefits will be suspended, the firm will continue...
...older, was there at the same time, and the two men have similar profiles. Both were Ivy Leaguers who had edited their college humor publications (Perelman's, at Brown, was the Brown Jug); both made their names first as cartoonists at Judge and another popular gag mag, Life (pre-Luce); both branched out to movie work and books. One difference: Perelman went to live at the New Yorker; Geisel never got into that magazine, except in advertisements. Another difference: Perelman's early work, which burlesques either contemporary or antique topics that are unfamiliar to me, is a little...
...following year, Madame Chiang did get to Washington?to drum up support for the Nationalists?and it was a spectacular episode. She addressed both houses of Congress and spoke at a rally in Madison Square Garden. Henry Luce, the publisher of TIME and LIFE, who organized the tour, put her on the cover of his newsmagazine. As a guest at the White House, she brought her own silk sheets, which had to be changed every day. When Roosevelt met Madame Chiang, he had a card table placed between them, in order to avoid being "vamped...
With this special edition, TIME delves into the business of creating the iconography of fashion. The subject of imagemaking isn't new to TIME. Henry Luce was well aware of his part in shaping some of the most powerful images of his era. And certainly the influence of fashion has played an important part in TIME's history: from Elsa Schiaparelli to Christian Dior to Giorgio Armani, this magazine has celebrated many great designers on its cover...