European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Tel cover at the first life left mat a photo of fort Peck dam by Margaret Bource Omta. Life stopped publication Attr the 1972 Issue it right. A revived life celebrated its 50th anniversary above after returning to the hands with its old look right. Life was her wedding presently Jill Lai United press International some people get China or toasters As wedding gilts. Clare Boomho got life conceived the idea and made prospectus Lor it three years before i met Harry Lues the 83-year-old widow of life founder Henry r Luce said in an interview. The first Lime i met my husband i tried to sell him tha idea. I was Mysell a writer and i said to him Why Don t you publish this Magazine and he said no. A was Quile satisfied with whal he had. A were married about a year Attar that in 1935. And he promised a d publish it sort Olas a wedding the name life at first was the Lille of a joke Magazine thai went out of business at the time Luce wrote her prospectus Luce said that Whan the Magazine was Tirol published in 1936, her husband assumed Sha a journalist and photographer would be managing editor but she said Ralph Ingersoll Ihen general manager of time inc., which included life and other men on the stall objected. You have to remember this was 50 years ego and they objected or reasons that seemed very substantial. They did t want the boss1 wife working with them. So i said i la do my own her own thing included being a congresswoman irom Connecticut ambassador to Italy and a successful playwright. Her plays include the women which was first produced in 1937 and recently opened at the old Vic in London. The play features 30 women in various roles and Luca said. You can Call me the single largest employer of women in the healer except for musical when world War ii began Clare Bootha Luce contributed articles and photographs to inc Magazine. I wrote two big Best Selling articles. Una on the dec. S or 7 Issue i forget which 1941 of life which was my Story on general Douglas Macarthur. The picture became very Lamous. Then i did the first of the articles that became the foundation or a lot of the books on Marilyn Monroe. And i did a lot of War correspondence from Burma Ceylon and Luca said she Felt that when her husband died in 1967, the spirit of life was gone. It was also a Lima when the appetite for weekly doses of pictures had begun to be satisfied to some extent by "1 was distressed when it want out of business in 1972 she said. As a weekly it was a great great Magazine. Most of Tho great writers of the Golden age which is always the one when you were Young because your Hopes Are always High of writers playwrights painters just happened to have been Active in the years before the War. Almost every Lamous writer of the Day Hemingway. John Horsey. John o Hara Allol them whole at some Point Lor time or life. Ii was the incubator of Talent in America " Luce described Loday s life monthly Magazine As very handsome but said i Don l have the enthusiasm for any Magazine that i had then in my 20s and 30s. One Oltha problems of our modern culture is that we Are swamped Wilh paper and images the amount of paper and magazines nol to reflect on their Quality there Are Only eight or nine Reading hours in the Day so it s not possible to keep up with hem All. Luco said she noles a tendency incorrectly to attribute Inge Sosi with the creation of life. He was. Insofar As he managed to keep me trom working on it. But then i otherwise would l have been a she would be the record of her contribution to life Kepi straight but in the end she said ii you have children it matters but when you re dead you re dead no matter How it turns the stars and stripes Page 15
