Word: clare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stars & Stripes fluttered from the mainmast as Italy's sleek new liner Andrea Doria docked at Naples last week with the first woman envoy ever sent to Italy, U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce. As the gangplank went down, dignitaries rushed aboard with flowers for the ambassador, and 120 photographers and newspaperman, mostly Italians, followed in a torrent...
Eddie's life has been a curious mingling, yet tug of war, between Boston and Ireland. He came from County Clare to Boston Latin School at the age of 15. After gradation he worked for the Post as a night office boy. "The Post had a wonderful free and easy setup," he recalls. "Any kid off the streets could get space for a colorful story." During the day he went to Suffolk Law School. In three years he had worked up to a reporter's job, and then, "when I heard they had made me a reporter I quit...
...everything from Hamlet to Abou Ben Adhem, while his command of five languages (his German is "not very good--just a reading knowledge") have made him a "discovery" for each new class of Lowell men. Snatching time from his work and his reading, Eddie has become President of the Clare Men, one of Boston's many Irish county clubs that help newcomers get started. Any man from Clare, new arrived in Boston usually calls on him first for help...
...Wife. She had fought against taking the part of the frigid, too-neat Harriet Craig, because "I thought it would hurt me as a comedienne." It may have hurt her: six pictures later, she all but missed getting the rich, sharp-tongued comedy part of Sylvia Fowler in Clare Boothe's The Women. Director George Cukor doubted that Ros was comedienne enough for the role. She met the challenge with her usual determination by acting one scene from the script in six different comedy ways. Cukor gave...
...Catholic, I wish to applaud Ike's choice of Clare Boothe Luce for the very important post...