Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...driving down Connecticut's broad, tree-lined Merritt Parkway one night last week, a Navy chief petty officer named Franklin Jenson saw an unusual sight : an empty state police car was standing at the side of the road with its big rear warning light flashing rhythmically. He slowed. Then he saw something even stranger: a weak blink of light on the ground near the car. He stopped, got out. A white-faced state trooper was sprawled there in the darkness, working a flashlight button with his thumb, and dying from a bullet wound in his stomach...
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 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...
...spring. Weeks before the G.O.P. Convention, she began stumping for Eisenhower's nomination because he "is the one living symbol of U.S. determination to defend itself and Western civilization against the political and military forces of Communism." (She failed in an effort to get a Republican nomination in Connecticut for U.S. Senator.) In all, she delivered 47 radio and TV speeches during the Eisenhower campaign. The most effective: a coast-to-coast telecast on the Administration's record on Communism in Government. Into her speech she cut newsreel clips and phonograph records of testimony from Whittaker Chambers, Communist...