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...fill retiring Representative Clare Boothe Luce's spot on the ticket, the G.O.P. picked handsome John Davis Lodge, 42, onetime cinemactor, grandson of famed Henry Cabot Lodge and brother of Massachusetts' Republican candidate for Senator, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. In the movies, Connecticut's Lodge was elastic enough to play Shirley Temple's father in The Little Colonel and Marlene Dietrich's lover in The Scarlet Empress. He decided in favor of politics while serving overseas with the Navy...
American Forum of the Air (Tues. 9:30 p.m., Mutual). "Atomic Energy Who Should Control It?" Harold Stassen, Physicist Irving Langmuir, Representatives Clare Boothe Luce and J. Parnell Thomas...
...artists are seldom advertised. Thus Tarzan still carries Edgar Rice Burroughs' bold byline, but has been written and drawn for years by a succession of ghosts. King of the Royal Mounted still bears the name of Zane Grey, whom it has survived by seven years. And although Clare Briggs died in 1930, the New York Herald Tribune could not bring itself to put a new by-line (Arthur Folwell and Ellison Hoover) on his Mr. and Mrs. strip until eight years...
...Pressure. Thus ended the notable political career of Clare Luce. It had begun, formally, in September 1942 when she accepted a nomination for Congress as her war-job. The U.S. was still on the defensive. Before Pearl Harbor and afterwards, Clare Luce had seen as much of the war around the world as any American civilian-and she had very strong ideas on the nature of the catastrophe into which the U.S. and the world had been betrayed by a variety of follies and stupidities. She wanted a more vigorous war effort and a more intelligent foreign policy after...
From the day she arrived in Washington, Clare Luce was under such a pressure of public curiosity as few Representatives had ever had to endure. Some of it was well-meaning, some of it silly, some of it vicious. She became gradually a heroine to thousands and a menace to other thousands of Third Termites...