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Though Halberstam glances occasionally at the big picture, he stares hardest at four especially successful news organizations and, more particularly, at the people who shaped or reshaped them: TIME and its co-founder Henry Luce; CBS and Board Chairman William S. Paley; the Washington Post and successive Publishers Philip Graham and his wife Katharine; the Los Angeles Times and Publishers Norman Chandler and his son Otis. (Curiously, Halberstam largely ignores the New York Times, explaining that much has been written about the paper in the past and citing his "personal and ambivalent" feelings toward his former employer.) Journalism critics...
...spend two years in Honolulu in "a period of immersion--learning Hawaiian and reading the secondary literature--which is not extensive." At the same time, Stanley will maintain some contact with Harvard, directing a $66,000 grant project given to the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research by the Luce Foundation. The grant project has two parts: it will fund Stanley's research on a new book about the future of Philippine-American relations, and it will finance a study group of Philippine scholars to discuss this topic. Stanley will lead the study group, which will meet at Harvard over...
...among the last soldiers evacuated from Dunkirk and served as General Charles de Gaulle's press attaché before joining TIME in 1946 as a foreign correspondent. In 1951 he worked on the personal staff of Editor in Chief Henry Luce. Five years later Laguerre, who was then TIME'S London bureau chief (and the magazine's ranking expert on European politics), was summoned to New York by Luce for a surprising assignment: to be an assistant managing editor of the fledgling SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. He became its second managing editor four years later. Outwardly brusque but actually...
...became social secretary to him and his wife Evangeline. In 1951 she worked briefly for the CIA on "a lot of secret stuff." Then, having learned Italian from a contessa and a tape recorder, she landed a job as social secretary to the U.S. Ambassador to Italy, Clare Boothe Luce, who became a close friend and is now godmother to Tish's 13-year-old daughter Clare...
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...