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  Henry Luce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Luce was born in Dengzhou, China, the son of a Presbyterian missionary.
Luce first met Briton Hadden at Hotchkiss while the latter was editor-in-chief of the school newspaper and Luce worked as an assistant managing editor.
Luce, who remained editor-in-chief of all his publications until 1964, was an influential member of the Republican Party.
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 Clare Boothe Luce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Luce won reelection to a second term in the House in 1944 and was instrumental in the creation of the Atomic Energy Commission and began warning against the growing threat of international Communism.
Luce's support was rewarded with an appointment as ambassador to Italy, confirmed by the senate in March 1953.
Not long afterward, Luce fell seriously ill with arsenic poisoning caused by paint chips falling from the stucco that decorated her bedroom ceiling, and was forced to resign in 1956.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce   (1241 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine - Henry Luce & His Time   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Henry Luce died on February 28, 1967, but the mention of his name still manages to ignite passions all over the United States--and the world.
...Henry Luce was born in 1898 to missionary parents at the Presbyterian mission-compound in Tengchow, China...
...Luce the ideologist, in turn, is closely connected to Luce the businessman, for it is evident that without his business success Henry Luce woud have had neither the platform nor, probably, the confidence necessary to the ideologist...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V44I5P37-1.htm   (11333 words)

  
 Henry Robinson Luce Papers (Library of Congress)
Luce believed that America should serve as a democratic example in the world, and his internationalist perspective is documented throughout the collection, most particularly in files on China and international law.
The Henry Luce Papers were received at the Library in approximately twenty major sections, with subdivisions corresponding closely with the administrative structure of Luce's office.
Focusing on Luce's involvement with national and international organizations as director, trustee, sponsor, patron, chairman, committee member, donor, or contributor, it documents the degree to which Luce participated in the life of a particular organization.
www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/lucehr.html   (1253 words)

  
 Henry R. Luce
Henry R. Luce, co-founder of TIME magazine, was described in 1961 by Current Biography as "the giant of twentieth-century American journalism." He served as editor-in-chief of all TIME Inc. publications until 1964, when he resigned and became editorial chairman of TIME Inc.
Luce supported many organizations and programs, such as the Save the Children Federation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and United Service to China, Inc. He was the recipient of 19 honorary degrees as well as many awards for his journalistic innovations, business success, democratic principles and dedication to the American dream.
Luce had two children, Peter Paul and Henry Luce III with his first wife, Lila, before marrying Claire Boothe Brokaw in 1935.
www.topmotivators.com /henryrluce.html   (331 words)

  
 HENRY LUCE FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Henry Robinson Luce (pronounced like "loose") (April_3, 1898 - February_28, 1967) was an influential American publisher.
With the first issue of TIME published on March_3, 1923, Luce served as business manager while Hadden was editor-in-chief.
Luce bought out the business magazine Fortune in 1930 and the pictorial Life_magazine in 1936, and launched House_&_Home in 1952 and Sports_Illustrated in 1954.
www.brolgas.com /Henry_Luce   (301 words)

  
 American Masters . Henry Luce | PBS
Luce became, wrote Joseph Epstein, "a great grey eminence whom everyone, with tar brush in hand, painted fl." (8) No other publisher of his rank had offered, in his own words, such resolute calls for American hegemony.
To note the limits of Luce's power and the representative nature of his opinions is not to diminish the importance of his journalism.
Luce's formula involved little more than cleverly summarizing the week's news in print (Time) or pictures (Life) in ways that left the readers with a concise, entertaining, and frequently inadequate version of an event or trend.
www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/luce_h.html   (2606 words)

  
 St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Henry Luce
Luce's constant articulation of and fight for "America" and its values, visually and verbally, personally and corporately, throughout his life (and particularly in the politically and culturally charged years of the Cold War) ensured that his impact went far beyond mere journalism, and established him within the canon of influential American public figures.
Luce had now entered mainstream, if privileged, America, and the aristocratic-elitist philosophy of Yale was one to which he would subscribe all his life.
Henry Luce was to see the addition of several other elements to his empire, not least of which was the development of The March of Time radio and cinema newsreel programs.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200757   (1054 words)

  
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Luce's parents were never married and they permanently separated in 1913 after which Anna Snyder, a former chorus girl, was left to fend for herself and her two young children.
Henry Luce dressed and ready to attend Royal Wedding of King Constantine II of Greece to Princess Anne Marie of Denmanrk held on 9/16/1964.
Henry Luce on their way to the Royal Ball that followed the wedding ceremony of King Constantine II of Greece to Princess Anne Marie of Denmark on 9/16/1964.
gulib.lausun.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/gufa265.txt   (21778 words)

  
 Henry Luce
Henry Luce, the son of a missionary, was born in Tengchow, China, on 3rd April, 1898.
Luce said that Pawley had gotten the idea of putting together a fleet of speedboats-sea-going "Flying Tigers" as it were-which would be used by the exiles to dart in and out of Cuba on "intelligence gathering" missions.
Clare Booth Luce, the powerful wife of Life publisher Henry R Luce and, herself a former congresswoman and United States ambassador, helped finance an anti-Castro platoon - an action that years later pulled her into the investigation of the conspiracy to kill President Kennedy.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAluce.htm   (1483 words)

  
 Reader's Companion to American History - -LUCE, HENRY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Luce, the son of a Presbyterian missionary in China, felt an outsider among the well-to-do students at Hotchkiss and Yale.
Luce also did innovative work for radio, newsreels, and television, and his Time-Life Books became a major publishing house.
Both the style and substance of Luce journalism was under constant attack.
college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_055000_lucehenry.htm   (419 words)

  
 CJR - Books - Henry R. Luce: A Political Portrait
Luce took a proprietorial interest in the country and on trips there he sucked up information so fast that Time's correspondent, Theodore White, felt as if he was talking to a vacuum cleaner.
No, the main charge against Luce is not that he wielded a reactionary influence or even that he made the news reflect his views.
Luce defended the use of "fakery in allegiance to the truth." He might just as well have advocated forgery to promote sound money.
archives.cjr.org /year/94/3/books-luce.asp   (1325 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Henry Robinson Luce (Journalism And Publishing, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Through control of these magazines and a book division, Luce was generally considered the most influential magazine publisher in the United States since S. McClure, and also one of the most controversial.
He believed that objective reporting was impossible and encouraged his editors to express his own views in their articles, which were unsigned.
Luce and his wife, Clare Boothe Luce, were influential in national politics.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/Luce-Hen.html   (312 words)

  
 Columbia News ::: Time Warner and Henry Luce Foundation Establish Henry R. Luce Professorship of Journalism for Dean of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism has received gifts totaling $2.5 million from Time Warner Inc. and the Henry Luce Foundation to establish the Henry R. Luce Professorship of Journalism, to be held initially by Dean Tom Goldstein of the Journalism School.
Henry Luce III, chairman of the Luce Foundation, added, "There could be no more perfect project for the Luce Foundation and Time Warner Inc. than to be in partnership to endow a journalism deanship in the name of the founder of both of them.
Gerald M. Levin, chairman and CEO of Time Warner Inc., said: "Henry Luce was more than co-creator of the first newsweekly and progenitor of the world's premier publishing enterprise.
www.columbia.edu /cu/news/00/12/Luce_Time_Warner.html   (784 words)

  
 Clare Boothe Luce Bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Brokaw, who became Clare Boothe Luce in 1935 when she married Henry Luce, the founder of Time magazine, kept aware of the happenings around her- trivial events as well as global ones.
Clare Boothe Luce saw how integral politics was to everyday life, and in 1942 she ran as a Republican for the U.S. House, winning, election in a Democratic district in Connecticut.
Luce and other outstanding leaders as models, tells young women that if they work very hard and focus on personal and professional goals, they will have successful lives.
www.cblpolicyinstitute.org /clarebio.htm   (1377 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Henry Luce
Luce, Henry (1898-1967), American editor and publisher, who introduced the concept of the weekly newsmagazine.
Luce, Clare Boothe (1903-87), American playwright, legislator, and diplomat, born in New York City, and educated at private schools.
Numbered rulers named Henry are entered below by their countries, in alphabetical order, and by regnal numbers.
encarta.msn.com /Henry_Luce.html   (105 words)

  
 Clare Booth Luce biography
Once in the House, in her maiden speech, Clare assailed Vice President Henry A. Wallace's freedom-of-the-air policy to insure international peace, calling it "globaloney." Clare won the respect of the ultraconservative isolationists in Congress and received an appointment to the Military Affairs Committee.
On Feb. 28, 1967, Henry Robinson Luce was stricken with a sudden heart attack and died in a Phoenix hospital.
At her Watergate apartment on Oct. 9, 1987, Clare Boothe Luce died of a brain tumor at the age of 84.
www.lkwdpl.org /wihohio/luce-cla.htm   (1742 words)

  
 Princeton - News - Princeton awarded Henry R. Luce Professorship in Information Technology, Consciousness and Culture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Luce professor will work with colleagues across the University to broaden the impact of the humanities and social sciences on work at the cutting edge of information technology and cognitive neuroscience, and to place the consequences of that work in historical and cultural perspective.
The award, for an amount to be determined when the appointment is made, represents a six-year commitment by the Luce Foundation to support the professorship with a possible three-year extension.
The Henry R. Luce Professorship Program encourages innovation through integrative and interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and research.
www.princeton.edu /pr/news/00/q4/1020-luce.htm   (376 words)

  
 Supporting Theological Education: Henry Luce III and the Luce Foundation - GTU   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This year, the GTU’s October 23 Blessing of the Crush gala will honor Henry Luce III for his leadership of the Luce Foundation, which has been a generous supporter of the GTU and of theological education nationwide.
Henry Luce is a major contributor to the cultural, political, and philanthropic life of this country.
Their four children were all born in China, the eldest being Henry R. Luce, father of Henry Luce III.
www.gtu.edu /page.php?nav=519   (362 words)

  
 30 Decades of Distinguished Graduates
The response defined the Luce brand of journalism, which sought to persuade at least as much as to inform.
Biographers trace the crusading zeal -- and Luce's religious, nationalist, conservative views -- to his upbringing as the son of a missionary in China.
Long before the advent of television, Luce discovered the value of news as a form of entertainment.
www.yalealumnimagazine.com /issues/01_03/popup/profiles/1920Luce.html   (202 words)

  
 Clare Boothe Luce - Women Come to the Front (Library of Congress Exhibition)
Though she covered a wide range of World War II battlefronts, Luce considered her war reportage merely "time off" from her true vocation as playwright.
Nonetheless, Luce endured the discomforts, frustrations, and dangers encountered by even the most seasoned war correspondent.
Anxious to convince fellow Americans of the dangers of isolationism, Luce wrote a vivid, anecdotal account of her four-month visit to "a world where men have decided to die together because they are unable to find a way to live together."
www.loc.gov /exhibits/wcf/wcf0010.html   (367 words)

  
 Luce Scholarship Program - Distinguished Scholarships
The Luce Scholars Program each year offers a select group of fifteen young Americans an experience in Asia designed both to broaden their professional perspectives and to sharpen their perceptions of Asia, of America, and of themselves.
The program is funded by the Henry Luce Foundation and administered in Asia in cooperation with The Asia Foundation.
At the heart of the enterprise is the internship that is arranged for each Scholar on the basis of his or her specific interest, background, qualifications, and experience.
www.distinguishedscholarships.unc.edu /scholarships/luce.html   (621 words)

  
 AlterNet: SOLOMON: Time Magazine's Skewed Tribute to Henry Luce
The hero of the retrospective, Henry Luce, gets plenty of adulation and some hazy references to flaws.
Luce died in 1967, and the magazine is now the flagship of the largest media conglomerate ever, Time Warner.
Fifty-seven years ago, Luce proclaimed that the world was in the midst of "The American Century." His pronouncement is still echoing.
www.alternet.org /columnists/story/3802   (740 words)

  
 henry luce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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Henry Luce, the son of a missionary, was born in Tengchow, China, on 3rd April,
November 2000, The Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture...
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 Women Members:Manuscript Division
Less documentation exists on her ownership of a dairy farm designed to produce sanitary milk for invalids and children, her operation of two newspapers and a radio station, and her creation of a girls' school in New Mexico.
An author and playwright, Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) [catalog record] served in Congress from 1943 to 1947 as a Republican representative from Connecticut.
As a member of the House Military Affairs Committee, Luce received letters from women in the military, and her congressional and subject files reflect her interest in wartime economic and labor issues, including universal military service for men and women and the concerns of military nurses.
memory.loc.gov /ammem/awhhtml/awmss5/women_membrs.html   (1024 words)

  
 Kroc Institute : Program in Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding - Luce Professorship
Swiss scholar Tariq Ramadan has been appointed Henry R. Luce Professor of Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding at the Kroc Institute.
The professorship is funded by the Henry R. Luce Foundation.
The foundation's Luce Professorship program seeks to promote innovative, integrative, interdisciplinary thinking and learning and is open to all disciplines and departments at leading private American colleges and universities with over 1000 students which have selective liberal arts programs.
www.nd.edu /%7Ekrocinst/research/luce.html   (269 words)

  
 New leader at Hill House - PittsburghLIVE.com
Henry, who was revered by residents throughout the Hill, died in July.
After completing a Henry Luce Foundation fellowship in Southeast Asia in 1999, Frazier took his first job with a nonprofit -- Manchester Bidwell Corp., a major job-training organization on the North Side.
Henry had promised to help guide the transition of his successor.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/news/s_167378.html   (811 words)

  
 Henry Luce III Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture was part of a large renovation to the fourth floor of the New York Historical Society.
To the left are before and after images of the Henry Luce Center's interactive map model.
This is a large banner displayed on the side of the New York Historical Society advertising the new Henry Luce Center.
www.rohersprague.com /NYHS.asp   (193 words)

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