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...board of Time Warner convened on the 29th floor of the company's headquarters in Rockefeller Center, attended not only by the directors but, according to board member Henry Luce III, by "uncountable lawyers and investment bankers" as well. Chairman Gerald Levin, says Luce, "very much was taking the initiative. There were many questions, incredibly difficult technical points." He admits, "It wasn't clear, at least to me, at the beginning of the meeting that the transaction would be approved...
...audience and delivered a 17-minute attack on violent and misogynistic lyrics in songs recorded by Time Warner performers. At the end of her speech, about a third of the packed audience burst into applause. Among them, notably, was a member of the Time Warner board of directors: Henry Luce III, the son of TIME's founder...
...member Time Warner board is generally supportive of Levin and his corporate strategy. But insiders say several of them -- notably Luce, former U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills and former baseball commissioner Fay Vincent -- have echoed Bennett's concerns in conversations with Levin. "Some of us have known for many, many years that the freedoms under the First Amendment are not totally unlimited," says Luce. "I think it is perhaps the case that some people associated with the company have belatedly come to realize this...
White quit or was fired in 1946, after complaining of distortions of his copy from China -- much of it by his New York editor, the former communist turned zealous communist hater Whittaker Chambers. White had also given the wrong answer to Luce's question, Will you accept any assignment I choose to give you? To Harry, Teddy had become "an impossible combination of a born organization man and born malcontent...
...heart of the book, and of most relationships between great correspondents and great editor-masters, is White's ambivalent (sometimes adolescent) struggle to use his talent as coin to buy his freedom while keeping Luce's patronage. As White wrote of himself in the third person much later: "He believed he could have it both ways-that he could say what he wanted to say, and yet enjoy the comfort and benefits of the parent organization that disagreed...