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Larsen was a gracious, inquisitive and gentle man who accommodated himself to Luce's abrupt and sometimes difficult style. Said Time Inc. Chairman Andrew Heiskell: "Roy fitted himself to Luce's personality and complemented it totally...
...people, making them into something." Among his discoveries were James Agee, who became TIME'S film critic, and Sloan Wilson, who worked as Larsen's assistant and modeled his best-selling 1955 novel, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, partly on his boss. Says Wilson: "Roy had energy, courtesy, selfdiscipline. When most people were running on twelve volts, he was running on 440 volts. Asking him for a raise was like stabbing a billiard ball, but he had class. When I showed him my novel and asked if he wanted any changes, he said, 'Say anything...
...Commission for the Public Schools to arouse local interest in school reform. His connection to Harvard was always close and active. He served two terms on the university's board of overseers. In 1965 Harvard honored him by naming a new Graduate School of Education building after him. "Roy Larsen has to be ranked among the greatest friends of American education." the school's dean, Paul Ylvisaker, said last spring...
Ultimately, says former Time Inc. President and Publisher James A. Linen,"Roy Larsen realized the world was made up of people, not things. He was softspoken, charming and underneath a man of great moral and intellectual courage and conviction." Henry Luce's sister, Elisabeth Moore, added a valedictory assessment: "Harry was the genius, but Roy was the one who could make things happen...
...DIED. Roy E. Larsen, 80, Time Inc. magazine marketing wizard, a creator of The March of Time and first publisher of LIFE, who was a top Time Inc. executive for 56 years, 21 of them as president; in Fairfield, Conn, (see PRESS...