First Day of Issue Life Time Henry Robinson Luce & Clare Booth Luce Stamp Cache

Description: First Day of Issue Life Time Henry Robinson Luce & Clare Booth Luce Stamp Cache Envelope Enclosure 32¢ New York NY Apr 3 1998 Life Time Henry Robinson Luce and Clare Booth Luce Henry Robinson Luce (1898-1967) was an American magazine editor and publisher who was the most powerful journalistic innovator of his generation as a result of his insatiable curiosity and consuming sense of moral purpose. Born of American Presbyterian missionary parents at Tenchow, China, Luce attended a British school from the age of 10 to 14 and then went to Hotchkiss Academy in the U.S. as a scholarship student. He entered Yale in 1916 and joined the Army in 1917. He graduated from Yale summa cum laude and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. At Yale he formed a close friendship with Briton Hadden, a fellow student with similar aspirations and ambitions. Editing the Yale Daily News, Hadden and Luce determined to found a weekly newsmagazine. Luce studied for a year at Oxford University and then worked with Hadden on the Baltimore News. The pair left in 1922 and raised $86,000, with which they launched TIME magazine in March 1923. By 1928 Time's profits came to $125,000. In 1929 Hadden died of streptococcus infection and his obituary in Time concluded: "To Briton Hadden, success came steadily, satisfaction never." Time was successful because its pair of creators had captured the college-educated public with a frankly biased combination of news reporting, interpretation. and departmentalized coverage. of a dozen fields all in a distinctive writing style, originated by Hadden, that featured brevity, brashness, and shock. Luce excelled as the editorial executive. In Feb. 1930 Luce's new project, Fortune, appeared, addressed to business executives. He encouraged talented writers to develop civilized expositions of America's business world. Archibald MacLeish, J. K. Galbraith, Dwight MacDonald, and Louis Kronenberger contributed to Fortune, while Fortune contributed to their professional development. In 1932 Luce purchased Architectural Forum. Few [if any] journalistic executives of Luce's generation were able to match his ability to organize and to gratify his curiosity and ambitions. None possessed the sense of moral purpose that sustained Luce in his Americanism, Republicanism, anti-Communism, and anti MeCarthyism. In 1935 Luce divorced his first wife to marry the brilliant, talented and beautiful Clare Boothe Brokaw. It was said they planned Life magazine on their honeymoon. Luce purchased the name and subscription list of the humerous weeklky Life and transformed it into a fresh and stunning experiment in photographic journalism. It took less than 24 months to reach a circulation of more than 2 million. Luce had pioneered new techniques of team journalist in Time, the reporter-researcher writer team; in Life, the photographer writer team, In 1954 he launched Sports Illustrated. Retiring as editor in chief of all Time, Inc. publications in 1964, Luce remained the company's principal owner. By the time of his death, Life had more than twice the advertising revenue of any American magazine; and in second place was Time. Luce's communications empire included radio and television programs, overseas editions of periodicals, and Time-Life Books. Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) was born April 10 in New York City to Anna Snyder and William F. Boothe and while her father [a violinist] deserted the family when Clare was 9, he instilled in his daughter a love of music and literature. In 1912 Clare became understudy to Mary Pickford its David Belasco's The Good Little Devil, and subsequently obtained similar understudy parts. In 1915 she entered St. Mary's, and Episcopal school on Long Island, where she met the daughter of journalist Irvin Cobb. A frequent visitor to the Cobb mansion, Clare was awed by such celebrities as Flo Ziegfeld, Kathleen Norris, and Richard Harding Davis. A bright student, in 1917 she enrolled in the Castle School of Tarrytown, New York, from which she graduated at the head of her class. After graduation in 1919 she went to New York City to find work. Her mother had married physician Albert E. Austin of Greenwich, CT who was later a Republican Congressman from Fairfield County and soon the trio journeyed to Europe where she met Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont, the women's suffrage leader. Back in New York Alva Belmont offered Clave a secretarial position and during her employment she was introduced to George T. Brokaw. At 43, Brokaw was a millionaire bachelor much sought after. Smitten, he courted Clare, and they were married on Aug. 10, 1923, at a ceremony attended by 2.500 guests. continued on the reverse hereof ... Features: • First Day of Issue Stamp Cache Envelope and Enclosure • Made in USA Condition: Pre-Owned Good

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