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...Clare Boothe Luce, onetime managing editor of Vanity Fair, playwright (The Women, Kiss the Boys Goodbye, Margin for Error), front-line war reporter, elected from Connecticut's Fairfield County. Said novice Politico Boothe: I have campaigned for fighting a hard war-not a soft war. Therefore this election proves how the American people want to fight with their eyes open, not with blinders. They want to fight it efficiently and without bungling. They want to fight it in honorable, all-out, plain-spoken partnership with all our Allies...
...Republican Congressman Clare E. Hoffman of Michigan, a labor-hating eccentric, who has pocketless coats so his hands will not get tangled up while he is orating. He once called President Roosevelt a "crazy, conceited megalomaniac"; he scoffed at the President's "absurd" assertion that there were U-boats off U.S. shores. In 1940 he said: "Roosevelt has . . . seized most of the dictatorial powers exercised by Hitler, but he lacks Hitler's efficiency...
...omitted what to many must stand out as his most notable accomplishment. This consisted in locating and employing editorial talent, either inexperienced or undeveloped in other publishing jobs, but under Nast's influence later to become nationally famous. There were Bruce Barton, Frank Crowninshield, Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Clare Boothe Luce and Edmund Wilson, to mention only a few; while the bright young women copywriters have overflowed into Fifth Avenue's swankiest shops to such an extent as to have definitely influenced the whole school of current department-store advertising...
...other Michigan choices: loudmouthed, reactionary Republican Congressman Clare E. Hoffman, who won renomination early in an outstate rural district; Mrs. Dorothy Kemp Roosevelt (divorced wife of the late Gracie Hall Roosevelt, brother of the President's wife), who got the Democratic nomination to Congress in a suburban Detroit district. Comely, brown-eyed Mrs. Roosevelt, mother of three daughters, concert pianist, once headed the State's WPA music project, beat five opponents, campaigning as an all-out supporter of the Administration and critic of Congress for lagging behind the people on war issues. She faces a hard fight...
...timeless absurdities of youth. But it isn't buoyant or spontaneous enough; all its breeze seems to come from an electric fan. It has that terrible noisiness which is the bane of too-innocent merriment. Refreshing is the still, small voice of Janie's baby sister Elsbeth (Clare Foley), who at seven is a past mistress of espionage and blackmail. Elsbeth is funny. The rest is formula...