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Worn by overwork and "feeling much below par," Clare Boothe Luce, 53, U.S. Ambassador to Italy, flew home last week for a checkup at Manhattan's Doctors Hospital. Said her physician: "Mrs. Luce is suffering from a chronic enteritis, which appears to be related to an infection of the liver which she had while abroad. She has, as well, a moderately severe iron-deficiency anemia, probably due to the same cause. She received one transfusion . . . and will require others. I have advised the ambassador not to return to her post for about two months. At that time I would...
...forays from Rome's Hassler Hotel (where the Trumans were lodged in the Eisenhower Suite), he saw the ancient sights, guided by TIME Inc.'s Editor in Chief Henry R. Luce, filling in as host for ailing Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). At week's end, Harry Truman in top hat and formal morning dress, Bess in black, went to the Vatican for a half-hour private audience with Pope Pius XII. What was discussed? Truman clammed up and smiled: "When I was President and a big shot came to call...
...colleges can boast the type of guest lecturer that the NWC can command, e.g., Vice President Nixon on foreign policy, Lebanon's Charles Malik on the Middle East, Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce on U.S. policy toward Italy. Between lectures and seminars, NWC students must also prepare annual theses of 6,000 to 12,000 words on such subjects as "Racial Factors in International Relations" or "The Korean Armistice and Its Consequences." Then during their last weeks they reach the climax of the term: each student gets a 23-day field trip to Europe, or Asia, or South America...
...these, Lee Jeffries, Patricia Hess, and Clare Scott all turn out remarkably entertaining performances. All three have voices and personalities which carry well to the audience, and in most of the numbers audibility and character were decisive. Miss Jeffries, as the amorous and attractive Helen, was everything desirable, both as a singer and otherwise. Her top number was "Lazy Afternoon," to which Harold Scott's pantomime contributed considerably...
...week's end Riesel lay in St. Clare's Hospital, his eyes covered with bulky bandages. Doctors were not sure whether his sight could be saved; nor would the police admit to any leads on his attacker. But the price on the attacker's head was mounting fast. Rewards posted by the Hall Syndicate, the Mirror, station WMCA, labor unions (including De Koning's), and a crowd of press groups and newspapers totaled...