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...feeling of a very real loss in the death of Henry Luce has been eased, in part, by your cover tribute [March 10]. His great spirit, which you have so beautifully conveyed, gives a reassuring faith for all of us engaged in communications...
Into the Streets. His habit of constant questioning?combined with a cub reporter's curious eye?made Luce a formidable practicing journalist. His questions about President Kennedy's reading speed, asked of the President himself and his relatives, produced the article in LIFE that revealed that the President liked to read Ian Fleming, and thus launched the James Bond boom in the U.S. He also traveled out of his way some years ago to hear and talk with an obscure young North Carolina preacher named Billy Graham, then gave him his first national exposure in LIFE. Present in Cairo when...
...Luce was interested in the young and what they thought. Only a few days before his death, on a visit to San Francisco, he insisted on being taken to the Haight-Ashbury beatnik district to observe how today's far-out young play. Whatever was new fascinated him; he could sense development and innovation. Recently, discussing the supersonic transport with one of his reporters, he asked: "When will I be able to fly in it?" He was also interested in the Rule of Law, which became practically a crusade with him as he persuaded Presidents and Prime Ministers to push...
With eloquence and emphasis, in public print and private word, Luce informed the U.S. businessman that he was a prodigy in the history of mankind-and should therefore live up to the responsibilities of his achievement...
Died. Henry Robinson Luce, 68, founder of TIME, LIFE, FORTUNE, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED; of a heart attack; in Phoenix...