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This is the kind of thoughts we are having at TIME this week as we publish what we have designated as our 40th Anniversary Issue*how much different, and how much the same, we are today from what Founders Henry R. Luce and Briton Hadden planned four decades...
PROBABLY never before in our times has one room become a pantheon for so diverse and distinguished a group. They will be joined by the editors of TIME and other guests, and the toastmaster will be TIME'S Editor in Chief Henry R. Luce. We anticipate quite an evening-a coming together of some whose beauty, glamour and force of personality have made them stand out; some whose skills are athletic and others political; some effacing ones whose achievements are intellectual and solitary; some whose quiet laboratory work brought them recognition; and others with the temperament to seize...
...expect to continue changing as change seems indicated. On our 20th anniversary, the man who started all this, Henry R. Luce, told the staff at dinner: "To you I say, it is better to think of us as quite new-new every week-for indeed not a week goes by without important changes-changes in who we are, changes in what we have to do, changes in the world with which your work is done." On that same evening, he used a phrase that keeps ringing in our ears. He said that we have to be "everlastingly contemporary." That...
...Confiscated nearly 75,000 copies of a novel, High Court, in which Right-Wing Author Alfred Fabre-Luce gives a fictional account of a future trial of De Gaulle as it might be conducted if he were impeached by the Senate. The government's object this time was to avoid offense to Charles de Gaulle himself...
Magazines have also picked up in sales. Henry Luce (a Yalie) is still selling distressingly large numbers of his magazine. Newsweek now under the same ownership as the Washington Post, is making slow but steady progress in its circulation figures. But the Square still remains perhaps the only place in the country where almost as many copies of the Economist and the Manchester Guardian Weekly are sold as copies of Newsweek and Time. This week the New Statesman is devoted to a special report on American culture. It has also picked up a number of regular readers since the strike...