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Henry Robinson Luce (April 3, 1898 – February 28, 1967) was an American magazine magnate who founded Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated magazines. He has been called "the most influential private citizen in the America of his day".
The magazine's last issue featured a human interest story. In 1936, its first issue under Henry Luce featured a baby named George Story, with the headline "Life Begins"; over the years the magazine had published updates about the course of Story's life as he married, had children, and pursued a career as a journalist.
Time Inc. (also referred to as Time & Life, Inc. later on, after their two onetime flagship magazine publications) was an American worldwide mass media corporation founded on November 28, 1922, by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden and based in New York City.
Henry Luce: Founded: 1929; 96 years ago () First issue: September 1, ... Fortune was founded by Time magazine co-founder Henry Luce in 1929, ...
Luce took Hadden's name off the masthead of Time within two weeks of his death. In the next 38 years, he delivered more than 300 speeches around the world, mentioning Hadden four times. Luce acquired control of Hadden's papers, and he kept them at Time Inc., where no one outside the company was allowed to view the papers as long as Luce lived.
75 YEARS AGO. A palm reader by the name of Madame Delores set up shop in a trailer at the North Y and began dispensing advice, according to an advertisement in The Gleaner of Jan. 27, 1949. The ...
That day, 75 years ago, a new chapter of Jewish history began. In Fort Worth, the Texas Jewish Post, headquartered on the South Freeway, printed an eight-page EXTRA edition with a banner headline ...
Henry Luce also promoted Graham with coverage at this time, and by 1954 featured him on the cover of his magazine TIME. [15] According to Bothwell, Hearst and Luce supported Graham because of his anticommunist message. [17] Due to the Los Angeles crusade Evangelicalism was introduced as an influential force in American culture. [1]