Word: ambassadors
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Brazilian newspapers applauded the news last week that President Eisenhower had picked Clare Boothe Luce to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Brazil-the U.S.'s first woman envoy to a Latin American country. Sometime journalist (managing editor of Vanity Fair at 29), playwright (The Women), movie author and scenarist (Come to the Stable) and Congresswoman (from Connecticut, 1943-47), Clare Luce, 55, served as U.S. Ambassador to Italy for 3½ eventful years-1953-56. During her service in Rome, Communism's threat to Italy was decisively broken, and she helped settle the explosive old quarrel between...
...Ambassador to Brazil, she will succeed able Career Diplomat Ellis O. Briggs, 59. Only foreign diplomat to visit every one of vast Brazil's 25 states and territories, polished, amiable Old Latin America Hand Briggs built up a priceless fund of good will for the U.S. during his 2½ years in Brazil. Judged by her performance in Italy, Clare Luce can be depended on to add to the fund...
Luce Named Brazil Ambassador...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26--Clare Boothe Luce was named by President Eisenhower today to be ambassador to Brazil. There, she will succeed Ellis O. Briggs, career diplomat who may now be assigned to Greece...
...great trouble is expected in her winning Senate confirmation. She is generally credited with having done a good job as ambassador to Italy...