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...Luce was interested in the quest for the historical Jesus. To him, God was a phenomenon to be prodded and investigated as well as prayed to, and nothing fascinated him more than theological speculation and debate. A woman seated next to him at a dinner was once startled when Luce turned and inquired: "What do you think of the resurrection of the body?" His deep interest in religion early gave TIME's Religion section a theological dimension when most of the press was concerned about Saturday church notices...
...Presbyterian missionaries, the Rev. Henry Winters Luce and Elizabeth Root Luce, he was born and spent the first 14 years of his life in Shantung, the home province of Confucius. From his parents, he absorbed the Calvinist faith and the love of his homeland that were to influence his whole life. Before he was six, he stood on a stool in the mission compound and preached a sermon to the assembled amahs and their children. He later said that he could never remember a time when he did not know all about the U.S. Constitution...
Rolling-Eyed Greeks. At Hotchkiss, Luce met Briton Hadden, a fiercely competitive boy from Brooklyn. Hadden became editor of the school paper; Luce (he tried to shake off the nickname "Chink") took charge of the literary magazine. Both excelled in Greek, and Hadden's fondness for such Homeric epithets as "rolling-eyed Greeks" and "far-darting Apollo" prefigured his later introduction of such double adjectives into the young TIME. The two boys did not become close friends until they reached Yale, where Hadden became chairman of the Yale Daily News in his sophomore year, an unusual honor prompted...
...there is one thing that most typified Harry Luce, it was his deep and abiding interest in religion. Luce was a religious man in the best sense of that word, without a trace of pietism or holier-than-thouism. A Presbyterian, he served on the board of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church and was active in a campaign to raise $50 million for the church. He also served as a director of the Union Theological Seminary, where he endowed a chair. But his interest in religion was not primarily institutional. Well versed in theology, he was comfortable with the works...
...Great. Luce resigned his title of Editor in Chief in 1964 and became Editorial Chairman. He spent more time at his home in Phoenix, maintained a less hectic schedule, traveled more. But he continued to send a stream of letters, memos and clippings to New York. He made several speeches a year (he always wrote his own), continued to help the Presbyterian drive, and accompanied a group of business leaders on a TIME-sponsored trip to Eastern Europe last fall...