Later, he served as Chairman of the A. S. Beck Shoe Corporation and Willoughby's Peerless Camera Stores.
[1] He was appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower to serve as the United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka from September 19, 1957, to October 2, 1958.
[1] In 1973, Gluck's colt Protagonist was voted American Champion Two-Year-Old Male Horse and his filly Talking Picture earned American Champion Two-Year-Old Female Horse honors.
[1] In 1983, Maxwell Gluck donated US$3 million to the University of Kentucky for the establishment of an equine research center.
He died of heart failure on November 23, 1984, at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.