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...nearly three years, this column has been the preserve of Henry Luce III, TIME'S publisher. This week I am treading on his turf because we want to report some important new executive assignments-including Luce's. He is leaving the publisher's chair to become a member of Time Inc.'s management operations committee as vice president for corporate planning...
...that post he will help develop policies and projects for the future of all the company's divisions, in several of which he has served. The elder son of TIME'S cofounder, Hank Luce was already a graduate of the wartime Navy, Yale, the staff of the first Hoover Commission and a police reporter's beat in Cleveland when he came to the magazine in 1951. He worked as a Washington correspondent and national affairs writer before he took on the job of supervising the planning and construction of our present headquarters, the Time-Life Building...
...Luce's successor is his colleague Ralph P. Davidson, who has been associate publisher. A New Mexican, Davidson went from studying international affairs at Stanford to practicing them as a Marshall Plan worker in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. I met him when I was LIFE'S publisher and he was a new advertising salesman in 1954. My assistant, Ruth Fowler, sized him up and told me: "Keep an eye on Davidson. He'll be going places." I followed her advice, and he fulfilled her prediction. Beginning in 1957 he held a series of executive...
John Hope Franklin, Litt.D., historian. Elisabeth Luce Moore, LL.D., civic and educational leader. Roger H. Sessions, D.M., composer...
WHERE TO BUILD A PLANT. "In days gone by," says Charles Luce, chairman of New York's Consolidated Edison Co., "communities used to welcome us to get the increase in real estate taxes. Now they...