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...1940s, Connecticut Playwright Clare Boothe Luce and California Actress Helen Gahagan Douglas added a much-needed touch of glamour to feminine political talent in Congress. Republican Luce raked the New Deal with quotable oratory, warned repeatedly of the rising power of Communist Russia. Six years after retirement, she was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Italy, served with distinction before resigning...
...revenue of $271,373,088. But if 1959 was a year of growth, 1960 is a year of change with an eye to the future. Last week the board of directors of TIME INC. approved the election of a new top-management team. Said Editor-in-Chief Henry R. Luce and President Roy E. Larsen in announcing the changes: "Younger men of proven ability take over positions of leadership...
...board of directors; Moore continues as the company's chief counsel and a member of the board. In their new positions at TIME'S top, Linen and Heiskell will work closely with Larsen and with TIME'S founder and principal stockholder, Editor-in-Chief Luce...
...appointment of Hedley Donovan, managing editor of FORTUNE from 1953 to 1959, as editorial director of TIME INC.; of Otto Fuerbringer as TIME'S managing editor, succeeding Roy Alexander, now editor; and of Duncan Norton-Taylor as FORTUNE'S managing editor. The changes, said Editor-in-Chief Luce, give TIME INC. "a management which will match the great opportunities of the future...
...Second biggest: $100,000 each from the Walter S. Carpenter family of Wilmington and the Henry Luce Foundation...