The Publisher (91 page)

17.
“Memorandum for Mr. Luce,” n.d., 1938, “Mr. Luce’s European Trip,” June 22, 1933, TIA;
Time
, June 17, 1938; HRL dispatch, “Germany,” “Czechoslovakia,” “Paris,” n.d., 1938, TIA; Elson,
Time Inc.
, p. 354.

18.
John Gunther to Frances Fineman Gunther, June 26, 1939, Frances Fineman Gunther Mss.

19.
HRL to Lila, July 28, 1939, LT; HRL to Manfred Gottfried, July 29, 1939, TIA;
New York Times
, June 28, July 3, 1939; Alice B. Toklas,
What Is Remembered
(New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963), p. 161; Richard H. Goldstone,
Thornton Wilder: An Intimate Portrait
(New York: E. P. Dutton, 1975), p. 148;
Time
, August 21, 1939; Elson,
Time Inc.
, pp. 409–12; JSBD, January 13, September 15, 1939.

20.
HRL to Allen Grover, May 2, 1940, Grover to HRL, May 2, 1940, HRL to Grover, May 3, 1940, HRL to Larsen, May 9, 1940, TIA.

21.
HRL dispatch, May 15, 1940, HRL to Roy Larsen, May 10, 1940, CBL to JSB, May 10, 1940, HRL to Roy Larsen, May 11, 1940, HRL to editors, May 11, 1940, George Jean Nathan to HRL, May 23, 1940, HRL to George Jean Nathan, telegram, May 25, 1940, TIA.

22.
HRL to Larsen, April, n.d., 1940, HRL radio addresses, May 22, June 1, 1940, TIA.

23.
HRL to David Hulburd, May 12, 1940, TIA.

24.
Russell Davenport,
The Dignity of Man
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955), pp. 10–11;
Fortune
, April 1940; Warren Moscow,
Roosevelt & Willkie
(Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1968), pp. 56–60; Ellsworth Barnard,
Wendell Willkie: Fighter for Freedom
(Marquette: Northern Michigan University Press, 1966), pp. 152–54; Bill Severn,
Toward One World: The Life of Wendell Willkie
(New York: Ives Washburn, 1967), pp. 114–17;
Life
, May 13, 1940.

25.
Oren Root,
Persons and Persuasions
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1974), pp. 20–36; Donald Bruce Johnson,
The Republican Party and Wendell Willkie
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1960), pp. 63–65; Davenport to Larsen, May 2, 1940; Larsen to HRL, May 2, 1940, TIA.

26.
Interview with Corinne Thrasher, W. A. Swanberg Mss.; W. A. Swanberg,
Luce and His Empire
(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1972), p. 177; Barnard,
Wendell Willkie
, p. 137.

27.
HRL to Davenport, October 14, 1940, HRL to Willkie, October 18, 1940, HRL to Willkie, n.d., 1940, TIA.

28.
HRL to Davenport, September 12, 1940 (unsent), HRL to Davenport, October 18, 31, 1940, C. D. Jackson to HRL, October 1, 1940, HRL to Jackson, n.d., 1940, TIA; Vasilia N. Getz to FDR, November 19, 1937, FDR to Homer Cummings, November 19, 1937, J. Edgar Hoover to FDR, December 11, 1937, Corcoran Mss., LC; Alan Brinkley,
The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995), pp. 56–57.

29.
Time
, May 6, June 10, 24, 1940;
Life
, May 6, 13, 1940.

30.
Life
, July 8, 1940;
Time
, July 8, 1940; Russell Davenport to Roy Larsen, July 8, 1940, TIA.

31.
Don Parry to HRL, August 9, 1940, HRL to Gottfried, Norris, Matthews, Larsen, September 18, 1940, TIA.

32.
Willkie to Davenport, n.d., 1940, TIA;
Time
, September 9, 1940; HRL, “Fairly Specific Points about the Willkie Campaign,” August, n.d., 1940, TIA.

33.
HRL to Davenport, September 16, 1940, HRL to Willkie, September 30, 1940, TIA.

34.
HRL to Davenport, September 13, 30, October 11, n.d., 1940, HRL, “Fairly Specific Points about the Willkie Campaign,” August, n.d., 1940, TIA.

35.
New York Times
, September 11, October 10, 27, 1940; HRL to Davenport, October 21, 27, 1940, October 28, 1940, HRL to multiple recipients, November 8, 1940, TIA.

36.
Willkie to HRL, December 3, 1940, TIA;
New York Times
, December 3, 1940; HRL to Willkie, March 28, 1941, Willkie to HRL, June 17, 1941, November 17, 1943, March 17, 1944, HRL to Willkie, March 8, June 8, 1944, HRL, “Personal Memo,” July 31, 1944, TIA; Johnson,
The Republican Party and Wendell Willkie
, pp. 278–80, 300–5;
New York Times
, October 10, 1944; HRL to Joseph Ball, October 21, 1944, TIA.

37.
Stephen Early to HRL, September 5, 1940 (unsent), Early to FDR, January 13, 1942, FDR to Early, January 17, 1942, PSF 132, FDRL; FDR to Early, December 3, 1940, Lowell Mellett to HRL, December 7, 1940, HRL to Mellett, December 11, 1940, FDR to Mellett, December 31, 1940, PPF 3338, FDRL;
Time
, November 11, 1940.

38.
“Meeting at Columbia Club,” minutes, July 11, 1940, Francis P. Miller to HRL, July 19, 1940, HRL to Miller, July 20, 1940, Ward Cheney to HRL, September 23, 1940, HRL to Walter Lippmann, July 29, 1940, TIA.

39.
“Memorandum of Meeting,” July 25, 1940, Joseph Alsop to HRL, July 23, 1940, Francis Miller to HRL, July 23, 1940, HRL to Francis Miller, July 25, 1940, HRL, “Memorandum,” July, n.d., 1940, TIA.

40.
HRL to Lew Douglas, July 15, 1940, HRL, “War Diary,” July 28, 1940, TIA; Elson,
Time Inc.
, p. 435.

41.
HRL, “War Diary, July 27, 1940, TIA.

42.
Ibid.;
Time
, July 29, September 9, 16, 30, 1940; Robert E. Herzstein,
Henry R. Luce: A Political Portrait of the Man Who Created the American Century
(New York: Scribner’s, 1994), pp. 17–20.

43.
HRL to Ward Cheney, November 18, 1940, Cheney to HRL, November 26, 1940, HRL to Cheney, November 27, 1940, TIA.

44.
JSBD, December 24, 1940, January 2, 21, February 1, 1941; HRL to Robert McCormick Adams, October 25, 1941, HRL speech to Association of American Colleges, January 9, 1941, HRL speech to Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association, Tulsa, January 11, 1941, HRL speech to National Automobile Dealers Association, Pittsburgh, January 22, 1941, TIA; Herzstein,
Henry R. Luce
, pp. 171–74; Elson,
Time Inc.
, pp. 461–64.

45.
JSBD, June 1, 1940; Swanberg,
Luce and His Empire
, pp. 170–71.

46.
Life
, June 3, July 22, October 28, 1940, June 5, 1939.

47.
MacLeish, “Draft of a Statement of Belief,” July 25, 1940, HRL to MacLeish, July 10, 1940, HRL to Leighton Stuart, January 6, 1940, TIA.

48.
“When We Say ‘America,’” in John K. Jessup, ed.,
The Ideas of Henry Luce
(New York: Atheneum, 1969), pp. 89–90.

49.
“War,” HRL to Senior Group, July 26, 1940, TIA; Elson,
Time Inc.
, pp. 412–13, 461–64; Herzstein,
Henry R. Luce
, p. 179; Daniel Longwell to HRL, August 5, 1940, Longwell Mss.

50.
Life
, February 17, 1941; Henry R. Luce,
The American Century
(New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1941).

51.
“Response to Mr. Luce’s THE AMERICAN CENTURY,” March 14, 1941, TIA; Gail Goodin to The Editor of LIFE, February 22, 1941, Russell B. Coover to HRL, February 18, 1941, H. L. Burton to “Life Inc.,” February 15, 1941, A. Taltosh to HRL, February 16, 1941, J. Frederick Emanuel to “LIFE,” February 17, 1941, Robert E. Duffy to HRL, n.d., 1941, HRL Mss. Boxes 107–108, LC.

52.
Freda Kirchwey, “Luce Thinking,”
Nation
, March 1, 1941; W. A. Swanberg,
Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist
(New York: Scribner’s, 1976), pp. 250–51; Ronald Radosh,
Prophets on the Right: Profiles of Conservative Critics of American Globalism
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1975), pp. 217–18.

53.
HRL to Robert A. Taft, May 26, 1943, HRL to William Ernest Hocking, March 23, 1944, HRL to Bartley Crum, October 29, 1957, TIA.

54.
Baughman,
Henry R. Luce
, p. 135.

55.
John C. Culver and John Hyde,
American Dreamer: A Life of Henry Wallace
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2000), pp. 275–80; Edward L. and Frederick H.
Schapsmeier,
Prophet in Politics: Henry A. Wallace and the War Years, 1940–1945
(Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1970), pp. 29–33.

56.
Henry A. Wallace, “The Price of Free World Victory,” in
Prefaces to Peace
(New York: Simon & Schuster et al., 1943), pp. 369–75.

57.
Ibid., pp. 373, 375; Henry A. Wallace to HRL, May 16, 1942, Wallace Diaries, vol. 10, p. 1575, Wallace Mss.; Richard J. Walton,
Henry Wallace, Harry Truman, and the Cold War
(New York: Viking Press, 1976), pp. 10–14; Jessup,
The Ideas of Henry Luce
, pp. 121–22; Dwight Macdonald, “The (American) People’s Century,”
Partisan Review
9 (July–August 1942): 294–301; Eric Foner,
The Story of American Freedom
(New York: Norton, 1998), pp. 232–33.

58.
Wallace, “The Price of Free World Victory,” pp. 374–75.

59.
HRL to Stanley K. Hornbeck, November 13, 1939, Hornbeck to HRL, November 18, 1939, HRL to Ambassador Hu, February 14, 1941, Box 281, Hornbeck Mss.; “Five Years of United China Relief,” n.d., 1945, Lauchlin Currie to HRL, April 12, 1941, HRL to Thomas W. Lamont, April 15, 1941, United China Relief financial statement, April 19, 1941, HRL to James G. Blaine, March 22, 1941, HRL to Bernard Baruch, April 19, 1941, TIA; HRL to Frank Altschul, Altschul Mss.; Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., to HRL, April 2, 1941, TIA.

60.
Jonathan D. Spence,
The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution
(New York: Viking, 1981), pp. 275–352; Takashi Yoshida,
The Making of the “Rape of Nanking”: History and Memory in Japan, China, and the United States
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 11–42; HRL, “China: To the Mountains,” June 4, 1941, Helen Meyer to HWL and ERL, May 16, 1941, “Mr. Luce Comes Back From China,” compilation of HRL cables, n.d., 1941, HRL to Thomas W. Lamont, April 22, 1941, TIA.

61.
HRL, “China: To the Mountains,” June 4, 1941, TIA.

62.
Ibid.

63.
Ibid.; “Mr. Luce Comes Back From China,” unsigned Time Inc. Memo, n.d., 1941, TIA;
New York Times
, June 18, 19, November 30, 1941; Helen Meyer to HWL and ERL, May 16, 1941, HRL CBS radio speech, June 11, 1941, HRL speech at United China Relief dinner, June 18, 1941, HRL speech to Rochester Chamber of Commerce, April 22, 1942, HRL to Gottfried, November 3, December 26, 1941, TIA; HRL to Larsen et al., June 16, 1941, JSB Mss.

64.
Theodore H. White,
In Search of History: A Personal Adventure
(New York: Harper & Row, 1978), pp. 13–55; Thomas Griffith,
Harry & Teddy
(New York: Random House, 1995), pp. 8–14.

65.
THW to David Hulburd, June 9, 1939, TD; “Ploughshares Into Swords,” unpublished manuscript, 1939, THW to Gerson Herzel, October 4, 1940, THW Mss.; Theodore H. White, “China the Ally,”
Fortune
, September 1941.

66.
Time
, May 19, June 2, 9, 1941;
Life
, May 26, 1941; Elson,
Time Inc.
, p. 467.

67.
Time
, November 17, December 8, 1941;
New York Times
, November 26, 27, 1941;
Washington Post
, November 27, 1941.

68.
Time
, December 8, 1941;
Life
, December 8, 1941.

69.
Elson,
Time Inc.
, p. 484; Swanberg,
Luce and His Empire
, p. 189;
Time
, December 15, 1941;
Life
, December 15, 1941; JSBD, December 17, 1941; Elisabeth Luce Moore interview.

70.
Swanberg,
Luce and His Empire
, p. 189; HRL to Ursula Vossvon Wehren, June 25, 1948, TIA; Elisabeth Luce Moore interview; Leslie Severinghaus interview.

71.
HRL to FDR, December 16, 17, 1941, FDR to HRL, December 22, 1941, PPF 3338, FDRL.

1.
JSBD, February 25, 1942, December 29, 1944; Time Inc., “Memorandum for U.S. Employment Service: The News Publishing Activities of TIME Incorporated,”
September 24, 1942, JSB Mss.; “News for the Gulf,”
Business Week
, September 25, 1943.

2.
“Analysis of Roper Survey, June 1942,” n.d., TIA; THW to David Hulburd, June 14, October 11, 1942, THW Mss.; Time Inc., “Memorandum for U.S. Employment Service: The News Publishing Activities of TIME Incorporated,” September 24, 1942, JSB Mss.; Robert E. Herzstein,
Henry R. Luce: A Political Portrait of the Man Who Created the American Century
(New York: Scribner’s, 1994), pp. 397–99; Robert T. Elson,
The World of Time Inc.: An Intimate History of a Publishing Enterprise, 1941–1960
(New York: Atheneum, 1973), pp. 37–42.

3.
Life
, December 15, 22, 1941; HRL speech before a
Life
dinner meeting, July 17, 1942, TIA; HRL, “Basis for an Editorial Program for all Publications in 1943,” JSB Mss.

4.
P. I. Prentice to HRL, September 7, 1945, H. R. Hodgins to C. B. Yorke, “Time Inc.—Influence and Responsibility, Report No. 2,” March 31, 1944, HRL to Jessup, JSB, Longwell, August 23, 1944, Thurman Arnold to HRL, September 9, 1943, HRL to Arnold, September 13, 1943, Arnold to HRL, October 23, 1943, TIA; T. S Matthews to HRL et al., September 17, 1944, JSB Mss.;
Princeton University Library Chronicle
, February 1944; Michael G. Carew,
The Power to Persuade: FDR, the Newsmagazines, and Going to War, 1939–1941
(Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2005), pp. 66–71.

5.
HRL to Managing Editors et al., June 7, 1944, JSB Mss.; HRL to All Members of TIME INC., June 23, 1944, TIA; HRL, “Basis of an Editorial Program for all Publications in 1943,” January 1943, JSB Mss.; HRL to The Senior Editors of TIME, December 18, 1943, John Hersey to HRL, July 27, 1944, TIA; HRL to JSB et al., June 16, 1944, HRL to Gottfried, November 13, 1944, JSB Mss.