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...Republicans turned to someone who was barely in their party. Utility executive Wendell Willkie had been a delegate to the 1924 Democratic Convention. But he criticized F.D.R.'s Tennessee Valley Authority as being a power grab by the Federal Government, and key Republicans, including TIME co-founder Henry Luce, thought he would be a fresh face for the GOP. Willkie had changed his party registration in 1939, but not all party regulars appreciated the interloper; Willkie's supposedly grass-roots campaign, quipped Washington hostess Alice Roosevelt Longworth, had sprung from the grass of 10,000 country clubs. Still, a tumultuous...
...harder than we did and did a great job capitalizing on all of their opportunities.” The Catamounts (8-4) took control of the game early, knocking in a penalty corner 13 minutes into the contest. Less than a minute and a half later, Vermont junior Maegan Luce scored an unassisted goal on the Crimson (5-4) to make the lead 2-0 in the Catamounts’ favor. While Harvard was able to get seven shots in the first period, the first buzzer rang without a Crimson point on the board. The Catamounts did not let their...
...spring of 1950, Henry Luce's friend Bernard Baruch was staying at his vacation home at Hobcaw Barony, S.C., and following the revival meetings in nearby Columbia of a young and lanky preacher named Billy Graham. "There's a young fellow down here that's not only preaching some good religion," Baruch wrote Luce, "but he's giving some good common sense." Luce, TIME's co-founder, decided to go see for himself...
After attending one of the crusades, Luce met up with Graham at a dinner that evening. The publisher and the preacher talked late into the night. "I think he was trying to pull me out," Graham later said, "to see if I was genuine or honest...
...Luce concluded that Graham was both. In 1954, TIME put Graham on the cover for the first time, calling him "the best-known, most talked-about Christian leader in the world today, barring the Pope." Luce believed that Graham had increased "interest" in religion in America. "I say 'interest,'" Luce wrote to a colleague, "because 'interest' is all a journalist can judge: journalists can hardly, if at all, judge of the quality of true religion." I say amen to that...