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John Shaw Billings was only mildly enthusiastic when Editor Henry R. Luce told a group of Time Inc. executives over lunch one day in 1936 about his idea for a new kind of magazine devoted to pictures. Billings, then managing editor of TIME, was too busy running the nation's first weekly newsmagazine to give the new project much thought. But nine months later, Luce called him in to say that the experiment was a shambles and that he wanted Billings to take it over. There was one little problem: the first issue was scheduled to go to press...
Married. Henry Luce III, 50, director of corporate planning for Time Inc. and president of the Henry Luce Foundation, and Mrs. Nancy Bryan Cassiday, 45, daughter of a Montana rancher; he for the third time, she for the second; in the chapel of Princeton Theological Seminary, of which Luce is a trustee...
...skilled public relations move, the P.R.G. also allowed CBS's Peter Kalischer, 60, A.P.'s Daniel De Luce, 63, and his wife, as well as several other foreign newsmen, to visit Danang and Hue via Hanoi and send out eyewitness reports on the return to normal routines in those onetime citadels of American might. Clearly, one phase of press coverage was ending and another had just begun...
Robert Armstrong, program director for the Luce Foundation, said yesterday that Bok personally handled negotiations with the Foundation and he approached them in September...
...Henry Luce Foundation of New York last week awarded joint grants totaling more than $100,000 to the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research and the School of Public Health...