Word: clare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enjoy your sparkling July 30 story on our musical play, The Complaining Angel. The mother of one of the pictured nuns cabled from Europe to say she saw it in your foreign edition. You implied that a Poor Clare nun wrote the lyrics you quoted. These and the indirect quotes used, e.g., "limp gimp," "dimpled wimple" came from the versatile playwright-professor, John D. Tumpane...
...addendum to your May 14 cover story on Marilyn Monroe, you may be delighted to have brought to your attention that the 18th century had its own Monroe, Dorothy, a beauty of the day celebrated for similar endowments. In thanking his friend Lord Clare for the gift of a haunch of venison, Oliver Goldsmith licked his chops and said...
Convention Fever (Thurs. 10:05 p.m., CBS). Past convention speeches by William Jennings Bryan, William Howard Taft, Wendell Willkie, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Clare Boothe Luce, with Narrator Robert Trout...
...Natalie White, who wrote and directed the show. It is her third such sister act, but her first musical, and it was a hearty success. The nuns in the cast wore no makeup and wore their habits throughout the show. The lyrics alone, some authored by a cloistered Poor Clare nun with whom Miss White had to confer through a veiled grille, made many a gimp limp in her audience and dimpled many a wimple...
Since mid-May Clare Luce has been in the U.S. undergoing treatments to correct the arsenic-induced infection. Her general health is greatly improved, and she is scheduled to leave this week for a three-week Mediterranean cruise. Then she will return to Villa Taverna (the bedroom and its resetted ceiling have been long since redone in nonleaded paint) and to the embassy duties that she has often described as "no bed of roses...