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...Henry Luce been the publisher of any other magazines, TIME would have carried his picture on its cover several times over the years. And the cover stories that should have been written about him would have been inspirational to men and women of all ages and classes...
...have read every issue of TIME almost from its beginning. I always wished I could meet Mr. Luce, though I never expected to. But I read about him and about his activities, and I considered him one of the influential...
...sure, appreciates more than does TIME the fact that life is what great individuals make it. The greatest are those, like Mr. Luce, who create something bigger than themselves as personalities-something that possesses, in effect, immortality. Usually it is an idea. In the case of Mr. Luce, it has been the infinite appreciation of, devotion to and development of the English language as the most powerful, most subtle, most beautiful, most versatile language in the world...
...often lamented that America has no ideology to offer the world. I submit that in his contribution to a 1964 symposium on food and civilization, Mr. Luce formulated not an ideology but a set of ideals attainable by the rest of the world, not under the yoke of the U.S. but by its side. Wrote Mr. Luce...
...Henry R. Luce, of New York, New York, declare this to be my last will and testament." As with the will of any successful man, the 22-page document filed in New York County Surrogate's Court last week was complex and lengthened by terms of trusts and the powers of the trustees named to administer them. But the effect of it was to make the Henry Luce Foundation, which was set up in 1936 in honor of Luce's father, Henry Winters Luce, the principal beneficiary of the $110 million estate. In the past, the foundation...