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Clare Boothe Luce's LSD diaries published...
...read with interest about the Henry R. Luce postage stamp, scheduled to be issued in the spring [TO OUR READERS, Dec. 8]. I wish that when I bought stamps, I could get those with images of Luce and other great Americans on them. But all I seem to be able to find are stamps with pictures of flowers or "love swans." I suspect that someone in the post office has put his grandmother in charge of the distribution department. STEVE BEUTELSPACHER Baltimore...
...Luce stamp, which will be released in the spring, adds his name to a roster that includes U.S. Presidents (Thomas Jefferson and Harry Truman), warriors (Admiral Chester Nimitz and Chief Crazy Horse), writers (Margaret Mitchell and Bret Harte) and artists (John James Audubon and Mary Cassatt). The diversity of the list would have been particularly pleasing to Luce, who had a journalist's abiding curiosity about people and their work...
...stamp's issuance happens to coincide with the 75th anniversary of TIME, the first of the four Luce-created magazines that changed forever the way news is read and understood. TIME's first issue bore the date March 3, 1923, and was the first foray into publishing for Luce, about to turn 25 and just a few years out of Yale. The boundless self-confidence that created TIME would sustain his second magazine, FORTUNE, through a rocky birth that was announced just as the stock market crashed in 1929. Against the advice of colleagues who warned him to retreat, Luce...
...hand-engraved image on the stamp is based on a 1962 picture taken on the island of Majorca by Alfred Eisenstadt, one of LIFE's--and this century's--great photojournalists, whom Luce hired in 1936. Reproduced as a drawing on TIME's cover when Luce died in 1967, this particular photograph captures the formidable intelligence and fierce concentration that made Luce a great editor--and now, officially, a Great American...