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...remains all too content to imitate Brando, which inevitably results in a rather blurred picture of Kowalski. Eugene Bell, as Blanche's sometime suitor Mitch, suffers from from a similar difficulty. Mitch should be a little less the hulking animal and a little more a confused young man. Clare Fooshee, on the other hand, makes a fairly effective if somewhat too motherly wife for Kowalski...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: A Streetcar Named Desire | 2/6/1957 | See Source »

Alcorn's selection caused some growling among right-wing Republicans ("The conservative wing," groused Michigan's stone-age Representative Clare Hoffman, "has been liquidated and is about to be buried"), but even these yowls seemed almost perfunctory. Serious, intense Meade Alcorn, who neither drinks nor smokes, has little of retiring Len Hall's ebullience, but he brings to the job a record for action. Born in Suffield, Conn., he attended Dartmouth, there broke the world's record for the 60-yd. low hurdles. (His 6.9-sec. mark has since been lowered to 6.8.) He graduated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: New Chairman | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...your story on the resignation of Clare Boothe Luce as ambassador to Italy [Dec. 3], the monarchist (but emphatically not fascist) press has indeed commented upon her departure. The monarchist magazine Candido, edited by Giovanni Guareschi (creator of The Little World of Don Camillo), said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 17, 1956 | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

Free to speak frankly over Congress' perennial failure to cough up adequate funds for Foreign Service personnel, retiring U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce told a Manhattan audience that such legislative parsimony is "folly to the point of national suicide." Said Mrs. Luce: "When you think of the billions that we have spent abroad to prevent our own atomic annihilation, it seems folly to deny a comparatively small sum to the very service which is working hardest to prevent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 10, 1956 | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

Nominated to succeed Clare Luce as U.S. Ambassador to Italy was San Francisco's James David Zellerbach, 64, board chairman of the $450 million Crown Zellerbach Corp., world's second-largest paper-products firm. An indefatigable worker, Ambassador-designate Zellerbach recently held five simultaneous chairmanships, 23 directorships, seven trusteeships and 25 memberships in an awesome array of companies, foundations, councils and clubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: This Fragile Blonde | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

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