Henry Robinson Luce (April 3, 1898 – February 28, 1967) was an influential American publisher. Events 1043 - Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. Year 1898 ( MDCCCXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 202 BC - coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty 's rule Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the
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Biography
Luce, known to his friends as "Father Time," was born in Penglai City, China, the son of Elizabeth Middleton (née Root) and Henry Winters Luce, who was a Presbyterian missionary. Penglai City ( is a port a town and an administrative subdivision of Yantai City, Shandong Province, China. China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National Presbyterianism is a family of Christian denominations within the Reformed branch of Protestant Western Christianity See also Evangelism, Christianization A Christian mission has been widely defined since the Lausanne Congress of 1974 as that which He was educated in various boarding schools in China and England. China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland At 10, he was sent to the British China Inland Mission Chefoo School, a boarding school at Yantai on the Shandong coast and at 14, he traveled to Europe alone. OMF International (formerly Overseas Missionary Fellowship and before that the China Inland Mission before 1964 is an interdenominational The Chefoo School aka Protestant Administration The Prefecture-level city of Yantai administers 12 county-level divisions, including 4 districts, 7 county-level cities ( is a coastal province of eastern People's Republic of China. He first arrived in the U. S. at the age of 15 to attend the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut. Luce split his time between waiting tables after school and editing for the Hotchkiss Literary Monthly, holding the position of editor-in-chief. He later graduated from Yale University in 1920, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. Skull and Bones is an elite Secret society based at Yale University, in New Haven Connecticut.
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. Briton Hadden ( February 18, 1898 &ndash February 27, 1929) was the co-founder of Time Magazine with his Yale classmate The two continued to work together at Yale, where Hadden was chairman and Luce was managing editor of the Yale Daily News. The Yale Daily News is a Newspaper published by Yale University students in New Haven Connecticut since January 28, 1878
Luce recalled his relationship with Hadden: "Somehow, despite the greatest differences in temperaments and even in interests, somehow we had to work together. We were an organization. At the center of our lives — our job, our function — at that point everything we had belonged to each other. "
After being voted “most brilliant” of his class at Yale, he parted ways with Hadden to embark on history studies at Oxford University for a year and worked as a cub reporter for the Chicago Daily News after his return. The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the The Chicago Daily News was an afternoon daily Newspaper published between 1876 and 1978 in Chicago Illinois. In December 1921, Luce joined Hadden at The Baltimore News. The Baltimore News-American was a Baltimore Maryland, Broadsheet newspaper with a continuous lineage (in various forms of more than two hundred years
Nightly discussions of the concept of a news magazine led the two, both age 23, to quit their jobs in 1922. Later that same year the two formed Time Inc. Having raised $86,000 of a $100,000 goal, the first issue of Time was published on March 3, 1923. Time (trademarked in capitals as TIME) is a weekly American Newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and Events 1284 - Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales into England 1575 - Indian Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Luce served as business manager while Hadden was editor-in-chief. Luce and Hadden annually alternated year-to-year the titles of president and secretary-treasurer. Upon Hadden's sudden death in 1929, Luce assumed Hadden's position.
Luce launched the business magazine Fortune in February of 1930 and founded the pictorial Life magazine in 1936, and launched House & Home in 1952 and Sports Illustrated in 1954. Fortune is a Global Business Magazine published by Time Inc's Fortune|Money Group Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Sports Illustrated is an American Sports Magazine owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. He also produced The March of Time for radio and cinema. The March of Time was a Newsreel that was shown in movie theaters from 1935 - 1951. By the mid 1960s, Time Inc. was the largest and most prestigious magazine publisher in the world. (Dwight Macdonald, a somewhat reluctant employee at Fortune during the 1930s, referred to him as "Il Luce". Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982 was an American writer editor Social critic, philosopher and political radical )
During his life, Luce supported many programs like Save the Children Federation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and United Service to China, Inc. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is an art museum located on the eastern edge of Central Park, along what is known as Museum Mile in New York City,
Luce, who remained editor-in-chief of all his publications until 1964, was an influential member of the Republican Party. [1] Holding anti-communist sentiments, he was an instrumental figure behind the so-called "China Lobby," and played a large role in steering American foreign policy and popular sentiment in favor of dictatorial Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek and his wife Soong Mei-ling (the Chiangs appeared in the cover of Time 11 times between 1927 and 1955. Anti-communism refers to opposition to Communism. Historically the word "communism" has been used to refer to several types of communal social organization and In United States Politics, the China lobby refers to any Special interest group acting on behalf of a Chinese government to influence Sino-American Chiang Kai-shek ( POJ: Chiúⁿ Kài-se̍k Jyutping: zoeng2gaai3sek6 GCB ( October 31, 1887 &ndash Soong May-ling or Soong Mei-ling, also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek ( ca 1897 She was the third of six children she was born in Shanghai [2]
Once ambitious to become Secretary of State in a Republican administration, Luce penned a famous article in Life magazine in 1941, called "The American Century," which defined the role of American foreign policy for the remainder of the 20th century (and perhaps beyond). This article is for the term used for American power in the 20th century [1]
Luce had two children — Peter Paul and Henry Luce III — with his first wife, Lila Hotz. He married his second wife, Clare Boothe Luce in 1935. Clare Boothe Luce ( 10 April 1903, New York City &ndash 9 October 1987, Washington DC) was an American He died in Phoenix, Arizona in 1967. Phoenix (ˈfiːˌnɪks O'odham Skikik, Yavapai Wasinka, Western Apache Fiinigis, Navajo Hoozdo, At his death he was said to be worth $100 million in Time Inc. stock. Most of his fortune went to the Henry Luce Foundation. He is enterred at Mepkin Plantation in South Carolina. Mepkin Abbey is a Trappist monastery in Berkeley County South Carolina.
According to the Henry Luce Foundation, Henry Luce III died September 8, 2005, age 80, on Fishers Island, New York, of cardiac arrest. Events 70 - Roman forces under Titus sack Jerusalem. 1264 - The Statute of Kalisz Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Fishers Island is a small island approximately 9 miles (14 km long and 1 mile (1 New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous
In popular culture
Henry Luce was played by John Dehner in the 1983 film The Right Stuff. John Dehner ( November 23, 1915 - February 4, 1992) was an American actor in radio television and films playing countless roles The Right Stuff ( is a film adaptation of Tom Wolfe 's book The Right Stuff, about the Test pilots who were involved in high-speed
The character of Mr. Rawlston, the journalist of the News On The March newsreel in Citizen Kane was based on Luce's anonymous minions whose quick-talking, wisecracking methods were rapidly displacing the newspapermen of the dead Kane, who represented William Randolph Hearst. Citizen Kane ( 1941) is an American Dramatic film, and the first Feature film directed by Orson Welles, who also co-authored For other people named William Randolph Hearst see William Randolph Hearst (disambiguation William Randolph Hearst I (April 29 1863 &ndash
In the musical Bye Bye Birdie, Henry Luce's name is mentioned over a phone conversation with Albert Peterson. Bye Bye Birdie is a musical with a book by Michael Stewart, lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse.
In the musical Little Shop of Horrors, the song "The Meek Shall Inherit" introduces the character of Mrs. Little Shop of Horrors is a Rock musical by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a nerdy florist shop worker who raises Claire Boothe Luce (although her first two names are never mentioned) as the wife of the editor of Life Magazine.
In Neil Diamond's hit song "Done Too Soon," Henry Luce is one of the 25 people mentioned in the lyrics who "died too soon".
Alleged lovers
Ralph G. Martin's book Henry & Clare: An Intimate Portrait of the Luces claims that Henry had extended relationships with Jean Dalrymple (a Broadway producer and theatrical agent) and Mary Bancroft (who, among other accomplishments, had been a wartime spymaster for the OSS). The Office of Strategic Services ( OSS) was a United States intelligence agency formed during World War II. According to Martin, Clare also had many lovers. Henry's liaison that most seriously threatened his marriage to Clare involved Lady Jeanne Campbell, granddaughter of the British press tycoon Lord Beaverbrook. Lady Jeanne Louise Campbell ( December 10, 1928 - June 9, 2007) was a British Socialite and Foreign correspondent William Maxwell "Max" Aitken 1st Baron Beaverbrook Bt TIME in 1956 found a minor job in its picture department for Lady Jeanne. Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Luce became so openly smitten with this cheerful redhead, 31 years his junior, that rumors of the affair appeared in gossip columns. Lady Jeanne eventually married novelist Norman Mailer. Norman Kingsley Mailer ( January 31, 1923 &ndash November 10, 2007) was an American Novelist, Journalist,
Martin's claims are controversial. An article in the August 26, 1991 issue of TIME states that "Henry & Clare is rife with errors, undocumented innuendo, non sequiturs and contradictions. Events 1071 - Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at Manzikert. Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. Martin shows little understanding of how the Luce organization worked; the portraits of his principals are caricature-crude, especially in the case of Clare. In biography even more than architecture, God is in the details. By that standard, Henry & Clare deserves the scathing verdict that Luce often penciled on drafts of unsatisfactory stories: 'Needs work'. "[3]
References
- ^ a b "Henry R. Luce: End of a Pilgrimage". - TIME Magazine. Time (trademarked in capitals as TIME) is a weekly American Newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and - March 10, 1967
- ^ Chiang covers at TIME Magazine
- ^ Elson, John. Time (trademarked in capitals as TIME) is a weekly American Newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and - When Harry Met Clare . . . - TIME Magazine - August 26, 1991
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