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...tribute that the co-founder of this magazine would have relished. In celebration of the 100th anniversary of his birth next year, Henry R. Luce will be featured on a postage stamp. His iron-jawed visage, so familiar to those of us at TIME, will adorn No. 57 of the Postal Service's ongoing Great Americans series, honoring men and women who have helped shape the nation's history. "Henry Luce set the standard by which publications are judged," says Postmaster General Marvin Runyon. "His passionate belief in the importance and power of the written word and his unmatched devotion...
...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...
...What I know about the bar business, you could put on the back of a small stamp... but I have 30 years experience on this side of the counter," he said, as he sipped a frothy pint earlier this week...