Robert B. Luce, 83; Publisher of Books and Magazines
Robert B. Luce, 83, publisher of the New Republic magazine in the 1960s, died Nov. 29 at a nursing home in Boca Raton, Fla.
Luce became publisher of the New Republic, an influential public affairs magazine, in 1963, after earlier publishing Changing Times magazine.
He founded the Washington, D.C.-based publishing house Robert B. Luce Inc. in the 1960s. The firm’s first book, “The Kennedy Circle,” was published just before John F. Kennedy’s 1961 inauguration as president.
After leaving the New Republic and selling his publishing house, he worked for Time-Life Books as director of editorial planning. Luce was distantly related to Henry R. Luce, the founder of Time-Life Inc.
Luce was born in Grosse Pointe, Mich., and served in the Army Air Forces during World War II.
He graduated from Antioch College in Ohio.
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