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<h1 class="firstHeading" id="firstHeading"><font size="4">CIA asked press to plant stories: Henry Luce [lsd?] time, look, fortune mags; parade, sat rev, reader's digest, CBS news ashes 77</font></h1>

Luce with wife <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce" title="Clare Boothe Luce">Clare Boothe Luce</a> (1954)</div>

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<b>Henry Robinson Luce</b> (April 3, 1898 – February 28, 1967) was an influential <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> publisher.

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Luce#Biography"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Biography</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Luce#Alleged_lovers"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Alleged lovers</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Luce#Further_reading"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Further reading</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Luce#References"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Luce#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li>

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<h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henry_Luce&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Biography">Biography</span></h2>

<p>Luce, known to his friends as "Father Time," was born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penglai_City" title="Penglai City">Penglai City</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>, the son of Elizabeth Middleton (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Married_and_maiden_names" title="Married and maiden names">née</a> Root) and Henry Winters Luce, who was a <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyterian" title="Presbyterian">Presbyterian</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_%28Christian%29" title="Mission (Christian)">missionary</a>. He received his education in various Chinese and English boarding schools and at 10, traveled to the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Inland_Mission" title="China Inland Mission">China Inland Mission</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chefoo_School" title="Chefoo School">Chefoo School</a>, a boarding school at Yantai on the Shandong coast. At 14, he traveled to Europe alone, then to the U.S. arriving at the age of 15 to attend the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotchkiss_School" title="Hotchkiss School">Hotchkiss School</a> in Connecticut.

Luce split his time between waiting tables after school and editing for the <i>Hotchkiss Literary Monthly</i>, holding the position of editor-in-chief. In 1920, he graduated from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale College</a>, where he was a member of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Delta_Phi" title="Alpha Delta Phi">Alpha Delta Phi</a>. During his senior year at Yale, Luce was tapped into the elite secret society, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones" title="Skull and Bones">Skull and Bones</a>. At Hotchkiss, he first met <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briton_Hadden" title="Briton Hadden">Briton Hadden</a>, who would become a lifelong partner. At the time, Hadden served as editor-in-chief of the school newspaper. Luce worked as an assistant managing editor. The two continued to work together at Yale, with Hadden as chairman and Luce as managing editor of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_Daily_News" title="Yale Daily News"><i>Yale Daily News</i></a>.

Luce, recalling his relationship with Hadden, said, "Somehow, despite the greatest differences in temperaments and even in interests, 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 for a year on history studies at <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University" title="Oxford University">Oxford University</a>. During this time he worked as a cub reporter for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Daily_News" title="Chicago Daily News"><i>Chicago Daily News</i></a><i>.</i> In December 1921, Luce rejoined Hadden to work at <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baltimore_News" title="The Baltimore News"><i>The Baltimore News</i></a><i>.</i>

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. It is said that the two originally thought of <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIME_Magazine" title="TIME Magazine">TIME Magazine</a> during their time in the "tomb" of Skull and Bones.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" title="The material in the vicinity of this tag may use weasel words or too-vague attribution. from May 2010" style=" white-space: nowrap;">[<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words" title="Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words"><i>by whom?</i></a>]</sup> Having raised $86,000 of a $100,000 goal, the first issue of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_%28magazine%29" title="Time (magazine)"><i>Time</i></a> was published on March 3, 1923. 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.</p>

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Luce launched the business magazine <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune%28magazine%29" title="Fortune (magazine)"><i>Fortune</i></a> in February 1930 and founded the pictorial <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%28magazine%29" title="Life (magazine)"><i>Life</i></a> magazine in 1936, and launched <i>House & Home</i> in 1952 and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_Illustrated" title="Sports Illustrated"><i>Sports Illustrated</i></a> in 1954. He also produced <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_March_of_Time" title="The March of Time"><i>The March of Time</i></a> for radio and cinema. By the mid 1960s, Time Inc. was the largest and most prestigious magazine publisher in the world. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Macdonald" title="Dwight Macdonald">Dwight Macdonald</a>, a somewhat reluctant employee at <i>Fortune</i> during the 1930s, referred to him as "Il Luce".) Among media writers, such cryptical editor's comments as "Needs work" and "Eh?" survive him.

During his life, Luce supported many programs like Save the Children Federation, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art" title="Metropolitan Museum of Art">Metropolitan Museum of Art</a> and United Service to China, Inc.

Luce, who remained editor-in-chief of all his publications until 1964, maintained a position as an influential member of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Republican_Party" title="United States Republican Party">Republican Party</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Luce#cite_note-TIME-Obit-1967-03-10-0"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-TIME-Obit-1967-03-10_0-0"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></sup></a> Holding <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-communist" title="Anti-communist">anti-communist</a> sentiments. An instrumental figure behind the so-called "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Lobby" title="China Lobby">China Lobby</a>", he played a large role in steering American foreign policy and popular sentiment in favor of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuomintang" title="Kuomintang">Nationalist</a> leader <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek" title="Chiang Kai-shek">Chiang Kai-shek</a> and his wife <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soong_May-ling" title="Soong May-ling">Soong Mei-ling</a> in their war against the Japanese. (The Chiangs appeared in the cover of <i>Time</i> eleven times between 1927 and 1955.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Luce#cite_note-1"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></sup></a>)

Once ambitious to become Secretary of State in a Republican administration, Luce penned a famous article in <i>Life</i> magazine in 1941, called "<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Century" title="The American Century">The American Century</a>", which defined the role of American foreign policy for the remainder of the 20th century (and perhaps beyond).<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Luce#cite_note-TIME-Obit-1967-03-10-0"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-TIME-Obit-1967-03-10_0-1"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></sup></a></p>

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Luce had two children — Peter Paul and Henry Luce III — with his first wife, Lila Hotz. He married his second wife, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce" title="Clare Boothe Luce">Clare Boothe Luce</a> in 1935, who had <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Clare_Brokaw" title="Ann Clare Brokaw">an 11-year-old daughter</a> that he raised as his own. He died in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona" title="Phoenix, Arizona">Phoenix, Arizona</a> in 1967. 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 interred at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mepkin_Abbey" title="Mepkin Abbey">Mepkin Plantation</a> in South Carolina.

He was honored by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service" title="United States Postal Service">United States Postal Service</a> with a 32¢ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Americans_series" title="Great Americans series">Great Americans series</a> (1980-2000) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamp" title="Postage stamp">postage stamp</a>. Mr. Luce was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1977.

According to the <a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henry_Luce_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Henry Luce Foundation (page does not exist)">Henry Luce Foundation</a>, Henry Luce III died September 8, 2005, age 80, on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishers_Island" title="Fishers Island">Fishers Island</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York" title="New York">New York</a>, of cardiac arrest.</p>

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<p>Ralph G. Martin's book <i>Henry & Clare: An Intimate Portrait of the Luces</i> 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 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services" title="Office of Strategic Services">OSS</a>[involved with Dulles]). According to Martin, Clare also had many lovers. Henry's liaison that most seriously threatened his marriage to Clare involved <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Jeanne_Campbell" title="Lady Jeanne Campbell">Lady Jeanne Campbell</a>, granddaughter of the Canadian press tycoon <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Beaverbrook" title="Lord Beaverbrook">Lord Beaverbrook</a>. TIME in 1956 found a minor job in its picture department for Lady Jeanne. 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 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Mailer" title="Norman Mailer">Norman Mailer</a>. Martin's claims are controversial. An article in the August 26, 1991 issue of <i>TIME</i> states that "<i>Henry & Clare</i> is rife with errors, undocumented innuendo, non sequiturs and contradictions, and that Martin shows little understanding of how the Luce organization worked; the portraits of his principals are caricature-crude, especially in the case of Clare.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Luce#cite_note-2"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></sup></a>"</p>

<p><b>Clare Boothe Luce</b> (April 10, 1903, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> – October 9, 1987, <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_D.C." title="Washington D.C.">Washington D.C.</a>) was an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playwright" title="Playwright">playwright</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_in_chief" title="Editor in chief">editor</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalist" title="Journalist">journalist</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambassador" title="Ambassador">ambassador</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialite" title="Socialite">socialite</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">U.S. Congresswoman</a>, representing the state of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a>.</p>

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understudy for it girl?</p>

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hired kahlo?</p>

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<span style=" font-size: medium;"><font face="Times New Roman">Clare Booth Luce was a former ambassador to Switzerland and former member of Congress.(2,7) She was also a member of Ronald Reagan's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.(23)...<b>Clare Booth Luce is a Dame of the Knights of Malta.(15) She was a director of the Nicaraguan Freedom Fund, a fundraising group set up in 1985 by the Washington Times, a paper owned by Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, to provide funds to the contras.(12,15,17,18) Luce was on the Board of the Washington Times. </b>[Henry R. Luce was initiated into the Order of Skull & Bones in 1920. (Sutton)]</font></span>

    <b>William Simon</b> (CFR) is on the advisory committee of AmeriCares and was on the national council of the Friends of the Democratic Center in Central America (PRODEMCA). Simon was also the chair of the Nicaraguan Freedom Fund and is a member of the Knights of Malta.(12,15,18)</font></span>

LSD

<a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1613675,00.html">http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1613675,00.html</a></p>

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After Wasson's article was published, many people sought out mushrooms and the other big hallucinogen of the day, LSD. (In 1958, Time Inc. cofounder Henry Luce and his wife Clare Booth Luce dropped acid with a psychiatrist. Henry Luce conducted an imaginary symphony during his trip, according to <i> Storming Heaven.</i>) The most important person to discover drugs through the Life piece was Timothy Leary himself. Leary had never used drugs, but a friend recommended the article to him, and Leary eventually traveled to Mexico to take mushrooms. Within a few years, he had launched his crusade for America to "turn on, tune in, drop out." In other words, you can draw a woozy but vivid line from the sedate offices of J.P. Morgan and Time Inc. in the '50s to Haight-Ashbury in the '60s to a zillion drug-rehab c enters in the '70s. Long, strange trip indeed.</p>

Read more: <a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1613675,00.html#ixzz0vrmXutkG" style=" color: rgb(0, 51, 153);">http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1613675,00.html#ixzz0vrmXutkG</a>

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