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White began working for TIME in 1939 at the age of 24 when a man named John Hersey, a promising writer for the magazine, signed him up as a China stringer. The new reporter soon discovered that he had an unexpected fan. Henry R. Luce, TIME cofounder, had been born in China and took a special interest in the young journalist's stories. Eventually, in 1945, the two men broke over the issue of China. Luce continued to believe that Chiang Kai-shek was a great man and the right leader for his country, while White became increasingly critical...
Last week White was back in the Time-Life Building in New York City, working with Senior Editor Ron Kriss who did the excerpting. Said White: "For me this is like a homecoming, kind of sweet, kind of nostalgic. It's nice being back in Harry Luce's house." And it is nice to have...
...forces in the Southwest Pacific-but with no visible support in troops, ships or supplies. He was indignant. I visited him in his headquarters at Melbourne, Australia. He managed to denounce all at once, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the President; George Catlett Marshall, the regnant chief of staff; Harry Luce, the publisher of my magazine; and the U.S. Navy. ("White," he said, "the best navy in the world is the Japanese Navy. A first-class navy. Then comes the British Navy. The U.S. Navy is a fourth-class navy, not even as good as the Italian Navy.") He was completely wrong...
...radio system in Chengtu, direct and uncensored. Thus, when the story broke, it broke in TIME magazine-the magazine most committed to the Chinese cause in all America. Madame Chiang K'ai-shek was then in the U.S., and the story infuriated her; she asked my publisher, Harry Luce, to fire me; but he refused...
...offensive and lascivious in Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls that he refused to submit the award recommendation to the trustees. The trustees refused to approve W. A. Swanberg's Citizen Hearst, so Swanberg got a later consolation prize for an inferior biography of Henry R. Luce...