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President Eisenhower last week announced that he will nominate Connecticut's former Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce as U.S. Ambassador to Italy. She will be the first woman ever appointed to a top U.S. Embassy, and the first woman ambassador ever appointed to Rome from any nation...
...Front. Clare Luce, 49, is the wife of Henry R. Luce, editor-in-chief of TIME, LIFE & FORTUNE. To enter politics in 1942, as a Republican candidate for Congress from Connecticut's Fourth District, she switched from a career as a successful author and playwright (The Women, Kiss the Boys Goodbye, Margin for Error). In her first campaign she showed a sureness of political touch and a flair for the dramatic political phrase which delighted her audiences, and got her elected. When she arrived in Washington as a freshman Congresswoman, she was appointed to the important House Military Affairs...
...Clare Luce spent Christmas 1944 along the "forgotten front" in Italy, came back to Washington to campaign for increased aid for war-ravaged Italian civilians and for a rotation plan for the U.S. Army doughfoot. As the war neared its end, she was one of the first to give clear public warning of the struggle that lay ahead...
...Clare Luce decided not to run for re-election to Congress in 1946, primarily because she did not want her imminent conversion to Roman Catholicism to be interpreted as a political act in heavily Catholic Connecticut. "I have turned eagerly back to my typewriter and books," she wrote. In 1949 she wrote the original story for the movie Come to the Stable. Last year she edited a series of essays by contemporary U.S. & British authors, Saints for Now (TIME, Sept...
...repulsed, the stretcher-bearers bringing down the casualties (three killed, 61 wounded, of whom many were stunned or scratched and returned to duty the next day). Their report home made Operation Smack seem like a staged show, bloody and purposeless. In Washington, Michigan's Republican Congressman Clare Hoffman, never one to shun a headline, sounded off loudly. The Army, he trumpeted, must explain "whether these invited guests were witnessing a spectacle similar to that where gladiators performed for the entertainment of invited guests in the time of the Roman emperors...