states would have used both the korean war and the vietnam war as conflicts that would help unleash chiang kai-shek and join him in over throwing the communist regime in china. he believed in that until his death. luce was a difficult man with few friends, an unhappy marriage and kind of shyness linked with arrogance that left him mostly alone. alone but certainly not invisible. his hand was evident in almost every aspect of time incorporated's life and culture. the company attracted talented young men from the ivy league, almost never women. men who aspired to be novelists, poets or playwrites but wrote for "time" because they needed a salary. no one paid better than luce. the regimented world of time, incorporated was stifling to many writers, many left over time to do more creative and independent work. others stayed on for decades often hating the work but unwilling to give up the lucrative salaries and lavish expense accounts. what made luce a revolutionary figure i think in american life was not his politics or his religion even his missionary zeal, it was his success in creating a new era of