Word: clare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Clare Boothe Luce stepped off the Italian liner Andrea Doria in April, 1953 to become U.S. ambassador to Italy, she walked into a nation in crisis. The Italian national elections were just coming up. Communists and monarchists were closing in from left and right on the teetering Christian Democratic government of Premier Alcide de Gasperi. The Communist daily L'Unita, eager to slander the U.S., hooted at her as a "comicopera ambassador." A rightist magazine hailed her arrival with a full-page cartoon of an American flag trimmed with lace. Last week when Clare Luce, 53, resigned...
...ambassador, Clare Luce began with a background as journalist, playwright and Congresswoman. Many skilled U.S. diplomats considered her experience insufficient for the Italy of 1953. They thought their doubts justified when Clare Luce, upon her arrival in Italy, warned of the "grave consequences" that might follow if Italian voters "should fall unhappy victims to the wiles of totalitarianism of the right or left." The wisdom of this apparent interference in Italian domestic politics is still hotly debated, although no one yet has been able to demonstrate that it did any harm...
...Rome: Clare Boothe Luce will retire by Jan. 1, be succeeded by San Francisco Industrialist (Crown Zellerbach Corp.) James D. Zellerbach, who has done Government duty in the United Nations, the International Labor Organization and as head (1948-50) of an EGA mission to Italy...
...picture is based on Playwright Clare Boothe Luce's 1936 play, The Women. The play was made into a picture in 1939, and audiences of that time enjoyed the satirical thrusts and hair-pulling matches. In this version, however, Producer Joe Pasternak has sugared everything up with pretty Metrocolor, with June Allyson, who plays the spirited heroine as a teary little dearie, and with a batch of sentimental tunes. Worse still, the Fay and Michael Kanin script carelessly tosses away one of the play's best ideas. There are men in the picture. In the play, men never...
Attending Venice's 17th International Film Festival, two celebrated women from different worlds met on the city's fashionable Lido, and as they grasped hands, photographers hastened to record the event. The women: Italian Movie Star Gina Lollobrigida and U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce...