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...going to London to replace incoming Commerce Secretary Elliot Richardson, Mrs. Armstrong, 48, will become the 14th woman to be named a U.S. ambassador since World War II (six are currently on duty). She is also the first woman to win a major ambassadorial post since Clare Boothe Luce served in Rome in the Eisenhower years...
...President himself predicted after the changes that he would be a winner "right up to the end of 1976." Quite a few Republicans, especially conservatives, were unsettled by the sacking of Schlesinger. Others were upset by the way Ford handled the whole shuffle. Said former California Republican Chairman Gordon Luce: "People are asking, 'What is going on in Washington? Why the musical chairs? Who's in charge?' Such a massive change has to raise the question of whether the Administration is in disarray...
...center of major news events, including outright villains, also must be featured on occasion, not as a matter of celebration but simply as the magazine version of a front-page personality. Many readers nevertheless regard any cover story as the bestowal of an ultimate accolade. Clare Boothe Luce complained in the Wall Street Journal last week that "Elizabeth Seton, the first native American to be canonized as a saint, couldn't make the cover of TIME. But Lynette Fromme made...
...Billings dropped out of Harvard to drive an ammunition truck for the French army in World War I, then became a reporter for the Bridgeport, Conn., Telegram. He was fired, he recalled, for "writing too goddam much purple prose," and went to the old Brooklyn Eagle as Washington correspondent. Luce hired him in 1928 as TIME'S capital stringer to succeed a New York Herald Tribune reporter, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. A year later, Billings became national affairs editor and in 1933 managing editor...
Billings was a tall, quiet, intensely private man whose gentle manner masked a steel will. He served as managing editor of LIFE until 1944, when, with the magazine's circulation over 4 million, he became Luce's deputy as editorial director of the four Time Inc. publications then: TIME, LIFE, ARCHITECTURAL FORUM and FORTUNE. Illness forced his retirement in 1955, and he returned to Redcliffe. As LIFE'S first managing editor, Billings was more responsible than anyone else for inventing the genre of photojournalism. Recalled Edward K. Thompson, managing editor of LIFE from...