Word: luce
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THOMAS W. LUCE III, 51, HAS MADE A CAREER OF CALMING the waters that Perot has stirred up. The founder of a large Dallas law firm, Luce was hired by Perot in 1974 to help dig him out of a disastrous attempted bailout of the Wall Street brokerage house of DuPont Glore Forgan. In 1984 Luce helped Perot negotiate the sale of his EDS computer-services company to GM; two years later, Luce settled a bitter dispute over the buyout of Perot's GM shares. To the general public, however, the Dallas attorney is better known for having been Perot...
...long series on Chicago's underclass. The newspaper won seven Pulitzers during his tenure. After leaving the Tribune in 1989, the editor-horse breeder moved to his Kentucky farm. Since then he has taught journalism, written a book on the press, finished one novel and started another. It was Luce, whom he met during a fellowship at Harvard last year, who brought Squires into the Perot camp. "I don't know where this will go," he says, "but it might turn out to be historic...
Founders: Briton Hadden 1898-1929 Henry R. Luce...
Founders: Briton Hadden 1898-1929 Henry R. Luce...
...first change you will notice as you begin reading is the weekly news summary that starts on page 22. This section, called The Week, will deliver on the purpose that our founders, Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, set for the magazine in its prospectus in 1922: to keep busy people informed. Today readers like you are busier than ever and blanketed by sound bites and news fragments as never before. TIME's news summary sorts the important from the trivial, the timeless from the fleeting...