Henry Luce III.

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Henry Luce III , also known as: Hank, (born April 28, 1925 in Manhattan , New York City , † September 7, 2005 on Fishers Island , New York ) was an American publisher and editor of Time Magazine .

Life

Henry Luce III was the eldest son of Henry R. Luce , the founder of Time Magazine . He was born in 1925. In 1935 his father married his stepmother, Clare Booth Brokaw. Luce was the grandson of Presbyterian missionary Henry Winters Luce .

He graduated from Yale University but was suspended for three years during World War II. During this time he served as a naval officer on a destroyer in the Pacific .

After the war, he worked as an assistant to Joseph P. Kennedy , who was a member of the Hoover Commission. He was then a member of the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of Government. 1949 Luce reporter for the Cleveland Press before 1951 his career at TIME Inc. as correspondent of Time Magazine began for Washington. During that time he wrote cover stories for Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon . He worked for two years in New York as a clerk for foreign intelligence and domestic policy .

In 1956 he became the head of the company team that was responsible for planning and monitoring the construction of the new Time & Life building at Rockefeller Center . After the building was completed in 1960, he filled a number of positions at TIME Inc. including Editions Manager for Fortune , Architectural Forum and House and Home . In 1964 he rose to the position of vice president of Time Inc.; he was named director of research and development later that year . In 1966 he returned to journalism as the bureau chief of the Time-Life News Service in London . In 1968 he became editor of Fortune and a year later of Time magazine . The philanthropist Henry Luce III was president of the "Henry Luce Foundation" until his death.

Henry Luce III was married four times. His first marriage to Patricia Porter ended in divorce in 1954. His second wife, Claire McGill, died in 1971; also his third wife, Nancy Bryan Cassiday, 1987. His fourth marriage was to Leila Eliott Burton Hadley .

He has two children, Lila Frances and H. Christopher, with his first wife. Luce died in his summer home on Fishers Island, near New York.

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SURNAME Luce, Henry III.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American publisher
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Manhattan , New York City , New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 2005
Place of death Fishers Island , New York , United States