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...editorial staff fitted easily into three taxis to go to the printing plant. There, in an all-night siege "amid torn newspapers, fried-egg sandwiches and smudged proof sheets," according to a later account, the first issue was put to bed. And yet when the 24-year-old Henry Luce, co-founder of the magazine with Briton Hadden, looked at the result the next afternoon, he was pleasantly surprised: "It was quite good. Somehow it all held together...
...everyone agreed with Luce's estimate. Charles Eliot, president of Harvard, called the idea of condensing news "disgusting and disgraceful." But Franklin D. Roosevelt praised the new creation, and so did Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. At any rate, TIME caught on, and it became part of the American and world scene, its presence reaffirmed in humor, fiction and legend. Its early style with its inverted prose and piled-up adjectives was endlessly spoofed, notably in a parody by Wolcott Gibbs in The New Yorker ("Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE Honolulu...
...Henry Luce wrote an article for LIFE called "The American Century," which was partly meant to urge Americans into the war and partly to put forth the apparently Hegelian proposition that the Idea had at last touched these shores. Luce's article, a grand-gesture declaration of American pre-eminence in the world, was as dangerous as it was magnanimous, since it could easily be read (and was) as the rationale for the ensuing blunders of more recent American foreign policy. But the basis of the piece bespoke what most Americans and many others in the world acknowledged, whether...
...Henry R. Luce...