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<title>
Nov. 25, 1991: From The Publisher
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Nov. 25, 1991 10 Ways to Cure The Health Care Mess
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 6
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<p> When we at TIME decided to issue a collection of Hugh Sidey's
essays on U.S. Presidents, there was never a doubt as to who
would be the publisher. A 1989 winner while at Harvard of one of
our College Achievement Awards, Luke Ives Pontifell is a member
of the extended TIME family. He received his prize for founding
Thornwillow Press, an enterprise that is dedicated to issuing
limited editions of exquisitely designed, hand-printed books.
"The goal is to create beautiful, durable books that can carry
inspiring events and exciting ideas into the future," says
Pontifell, 23. "Today's primary means of communication, like
newspapers and television, are effective but ephemeral. We don't
want today's ideas to become tomorrow's trash."
</p>
<p> Pontifell's philosophy was shaped early. From his mother,
a sculptor, he learned a reverence for craftsmanship, and from
his father, an advertising creative director, he derived a love
for the written word. Growing up in a 200-year-old farmhouse in
West Stockbridge, Mass., he made toys and wrote poems in
calligraphy.
</p>
<p> In his teens Pontifell took a printing course and promptly
fell in love. "There's nothing like running your fingers over
the letters on a newly printed page," he says. "It enhances the
way you experience the words." At age 16 he leased his own
letterpress, and Thornwillow was born. His first coup was
printing historian William L. Shirer's memoir of the U.S.
bombing of Hiroshima. Since then Thornwillow has published works
by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Helmut Kohl. This week it brings
out The Presidency by Hugh Sidey. The book is available through
Thornwillow Press in New York City; $300 leather, $75 cloth.
</p>
<p> Pontifell and Sidey were delighted by the collaboration.
"I had read Hugh's essays for years and leaped at the chance to
print them," says Pontifell. For Sidey, meeting Luke recalled
his youth as a printer at the Iowa newspaper his great-
grandfather founded. "I consider Luke an adopted son," he says.
Sidey believes TIME co-founder Henry Luce would also feel an
affinity. "Luce complained each week about putting out the
magazine, but when he got a copy fresh off the presses, he would
lift it, smell it, riffle the pages. For a while, all was well
with the world."
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<p>-- Elizabeth P. Valk
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