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Arriving back in Italy after a U.S. visit, Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce brought with her the State Department's resolve to press the Italian government to intensify curbs on the Reds. At the airport, speaking over the radio, she also had a lighter recommendation. She suggested that in Italy she be called Ambassadress instead of Ambassador, because in Italian "Mrs. Ambassador" soon leads to intricate grammatical complications. "And I do not want to make even small difficulties for you." she said...
Thomas O'Clare, 79, asking for a divorce, told the court that her husband, 80, caused her great anxiety with his "strong drink and flirtatious ways with other women." Rundown. In Bloomington, Ill., the daily Pantagraph carried this classified ad: "HIGHLY INTELLIGENT fellow . . . lazy, unreliable young man who chews tobacco, has three small children to feed, wants highly paid executive position . . ." Payoff. In Miami, when FBI agents nabbed him, Essex Robinson asked what he was charged with, learned he was wanted for draft evasion, exclaimed: "Oh, is that it? I heard you were after me, so I hurried right...
...CLARE EAMES New York City...
Attacking the British. All Italy was enraged. Violence sputtered in Rome, Milan, Genoa, Naples, Bari, Messina. In Rome, U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce, returning from a call on Premier Pella, found Via Veneto, the broad street in front of the embassy, blocked by demonstrators, so that her car could not get through. Unhesitatingly, she stepped out of the car into the midst of the demonstrators and walked coolly through the crowd to the embassy. Then she offered to talk to any qualified representative of the demonstrators, but the crowd dispersed without anyone taking up the offer...
...special announcement." Italians thrilled at the news. Newspapers, except those of the far left, broke out their big type to proclaim AN ACT OF JUSTICE. Wrote Italy's leading daily, Corriere della Sera: "What happened has been to a great extent the work of a woman, of Mrs. [Clare Boothe] Luce, and it is right and necessary that the Italian people know it . . . Perhaps one day we will learn with what patience, intelligence and diplomatic tact Mrs. Luce succeeded in bringing this arduous task to a happy end." But Ambassador Luce, in a press conference, attributed the plan...