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...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...
...Clare Boothe Luce as the President's Ambassador in Rome or its environs is as much against the standard of our civic morality as was C. E. Wilson in the Cabinet . . . No person can serve two masters . . . As a Catholic, Mrs. Luce must direct her efforts to establishing the right of freedom for the Catholic church alone . . . The morality supported by authoritarian religions, which is permeated with expediency and to which members must submit, is incompatible with the superior and secular morality inherent in and established by our Constitution...
...Catholic, I wish to applaud Ike's choice of Clare Boothe Luce for the very important post...
Last month the Gallup poll reported that she ranked fourth in U.S. favor as the world's "most admired woman." (Front runners: Eleanor Roosevelt, Queen Elizabeth II, Mamie Eisenhower.) Like any woman in politics, Clare Luce has frequently presented the woman's viewpoint on public questions. But her main contribution to public discussion has been free of feminist special pleading. Deeply read in philosophy, she has brought a clear, practical mind and a gift for forceful expression to the central problems of world political strategy...
...Upper Reaches." News of her appointment brought statements of approval from her associates in Congress, and from the Italian press. From another woman, New York Times Columnist Anne O'Hare McCormick, came a careful appraisal of the job Clare Luce has to face...