Word: clare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CLARE BOOTHE LUCE, 56, playwright (The Women, Margin for Error), wife of Editor in Chief Henry R. Luce of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE, sometime G.O.P. Congresswoman from Connecticut (1943-47) and Ambassador to Italy (1953-57), who was nominated by President Eisenhower in late February to be Ambassador to Brazil...
...Very Intemperate." When the Senate Foreign Relations Committee took up Clare Luce's nomination in mid-April, it seemed likely that confirmation would be a simple formality; she had been confirmed unanimously by the Senate for her mission to Rome in 1953, and had come home with the praise of the Italians, of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and many a Democratic Senator. This time both the President and Secretary Dulles had given her warm endorsement, and Brazil's government and press had welcomed her appointment to Rio with notable enthusiasm...
...President Eisenhower one day last week Clare Booth Luce submitted her resignation. Taking global view from a vantage point high atop towers of Manhattan's fabled, fantastic Rockefeller Center was mellowing mate Henry R. Signposts pointed to a clear and tragic dilemma, resolved only by judicious sacrifice by Clare, chic and civic at fifty-five...
...With Universal's cash, Chesler bought Baltimore's American Totalisator, which owns and leases 80% of the racetrack "Tote" systems that automatically figure and post bets, odds and winnings. By swapping stock, Universal later acquired General Register Corp. (ticket machines for movies and racetracks) and C. P. Clare & Co. (electronic relays). The company, then renamed Universal Controls, paid cash for Canada...
...Died. Clare Lorraine Manville, 64, asbestos heiress, whose four divorces were no match for the ten marriages of her brother Tommy; of a heart attack; in Las Vegas...