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HENRY ROBINSON LUCE, the cofounder of TIME, probably had less personal publicity than any other American of comparable influence; he was widely unknown, and what was known about him was often wrong. Luce was particularly nettled by Wolcott Gibbs' brilliant parody profile in The New Yorker ("Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind"). Once, after Luce had visited a college class in contemporary biography, he exploded: "And who do you suppose the class was discussing? Me! And what do you suppose they were using as their text? That goddam article in The New Yorker! Is this thing going...
Ever More Ridiculous. Editorial writ ers have been convicted for calling De Gaulle a "liar," and Political Writer Alfred Fabre-Luce was fined $300 for describing him as "a combination of Machiavelli and Cyrano de Bergerac." Truth is no defense. Former Cabinet Minister Henry Lemery, 93, was found guilty and fined for writing that De Gaulle, as the leader of Free French forces during World War II, personally ordered attacks against Vichy French garrisons in Dakar and Algeria-even though most historians now agree that he did just that. The government indicted the anti-Gaullist weekly Minute on charges...
...status. Milton Glaser and Jerome Snyder visit "one of the last remaining Old World markers" under the elevated in East Harlem. Gloria Steinem re-creates the years that Ho Chi Minh spent in New York, when he worked as a waiter and laundryman. And a freelance reviewer, Clare Boothe Luce, discovers that John Kenneth Galbraith is a better economist than novelist when she reviews his first novel Triumph, about U.S. fumbling in a Latin American country...
...impossible job, complicated by the guidelines laid down in his own treatise, which proved in practice to be "inapplicable in every detail." He quickly dumped it. In 1943, having irritated just about everyone by his zealous performance, he was dumped himself. A year on FORTUNE followed?he credits Henry Luce with teaching him to write?and then it was back to the Gov ernment, first to gauge the effectiveness of U.S. strategic bombing in Germany and Japan, later to work as an adviser on economic policies in the occupied countries. Since 1949, he has been on and off at Harvard...
...statue, said Henry Luce III, who accepted it on behalf of his colleagues, was something he liked to think of as a token of French friendship for Americans. TIME'S gratitude, said Luce, was not that of "an individual visitor appreciating France, nor of a company doing business here. It is as neighbors on a particular street. It is as neighbors that we come to know each other best, and best share each other's problems...