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...great man is one sentence," declared Clare Boothe Luce in a speech to the American Gas Association convention in Boston. "History has no time for more than one sentence, and it is always a sentence that has an active verb." Dwight Eisenhower's sentence: "He led the victorious armies of the alliance in the greatest war in history." John F. Kennedy's: "He challenged the might of the Soviet Union in the Western Hemisphere and won-short of war." Richard Nixon, she thinks, "may be in the process of writing his one sentence now. It will...
...commercial out-takes Nixon made in '68). The result is a kind of modern-day equivalent of Citizen Kane. For Millhouse takes one step further Pauline Kael's argument that Kane's News of the World search for the meaning of "Rosebud" is a conscious parody on the Henry Luce operation that had supplanted Hearst's more idiosyncratic satrapy: in Millhouse, electronic journalism has become the dominant mouthpiece for the promulgation of bogus truth. Sonorous, unseen voices intone the latest espionage finds; hydra-headed clumps of radio and TV microphones become the pulpits from which bulletins and statements issue forth...
This week the American Council of Learned Societies is releasing the first major study of religion graduate programs, prepared by the Rev. Dr. Claude Welch, the dean of Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union, and financed by the Henry Luce Foundation. Welch not only takes an informed, opinionated look at religion studies, but dares to suggest that about one-third of the nation's graduate religion departments should go out of business...
Dilemma. Con Ed insists that delaying the new plant will increase its costs by at least $4 million a month. "To impose this heavy financial burden unnecessarily," says Con Ed Chairman Charles F. Luce, "would be completely inconsistent with the national effort to combat inflation and unemployment...
...male colleagues were "somewhat overprotective when there was shooting." But she was also smart enough to realize that her gender could be an asset: "At important meetings, a woman is not as likely to be thrown out as a man." Demanding and visionary, in 1954 she badgered Henry Luce into promising that she would be LIFE'S first photographer to go to the moon. "Even at the peak of her career," recalled Eisenstaedt, "she was willing and eager. She would get up at daybreak to photograph a bread crumb if necessary...