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Vladimir K. Petric, author, filmmaker, and visiting lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies last Fall, will be the Henry R. Luce Visiting Professor in Film Studies for 1973-74. He will succeed Standish D. Lawder, the first Luce professor of film at Harvard...
...Rediscovery of Human Nature" [April 2] is without doubt one of your best post-Luce efforts. A better treatment of a conservative philosophy of human nature will be hard to find. Congratulations...
Flying in from her home in Hawaii, Clare Boothe Luce caught a Philadelphia performance of the Broadway-bound revival of her 1936 hit The Women. Later in Manhattan, dozens of old and new friends, including Senator and Mrs. Jacob Javits, Mrs. William F. Buckley Jr., Author David Halberstam, Director Joshua Logan and his wife, gathered at "21" to celebrate Mrs. Luce's 70th birthday. The party was given by her stepson Henry Luce III and New York City Parks Commissioner Richard Clurman and his wife. Actress Ilka Chase toasted Mrs. Luce for providing "the best 18 months...
...Vice President Eric Hodgins recalled, this compliment "caused even those among management to utter harsh, humorless laughter." The management structure was altered to give the publishers more autonomy, but it remained "a benevolent and indulgent monarchy," since Luce retained the final say in all major decisions. That began to change in 1960 when, in a reorganization, the founding executives made way for a new president and board chairman. In 1964, Luce himself solved the problem of editorial succession by picking Hedley Donovan to be editor in chief of all Time Inc. publications. It was Donovan, not Luce, who decided that...
...times had changed-and so had Time Inc. Elson skillfully develops the contrast between the innocent gusto with which its magazines threw themselves into the war effort after Pearl Harbor, and the gradually chastening complexities of postwar and cold-war politics. In his last years, Luce, the author of The American Century, worked hard to alter the more simplistic aspects of his patriotism. The result was a more universal theme for his last crusade: the American support and promotion of international law. It was the natural extension of his editorial conscience...