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Brazilian newspapers applauded the news last week that President Eisenhower had picked Clare Boothe Luce to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Brazil-the U.S.'s first woman envoy to a Latin American country. Sometime journalist (managing editor of Vanity Fair at 29), playwright (The Women), movie author and scenarist (Come to the Stable) and Congresswoman (from Connecticut, 1943-47), Clare Luce, 55, served as U.S. Ambassador to Italy for 3½ eventful years-1953-56. During her service in Rome, Communism's threat to Italy was decisively broken, and she helped settle the explosive old quarrel between...
Next day, while the newspapers gloated about Rountree's "fleeing from the crowds which came to receive him," the State Department envoy was scheduled to call on Iraq's head of state, General Kassem. The Iraqis sent an army station wagon and a jeepload of troops and-semi-secretly and with no flag flying-the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State was smuggled off to call on the Prime Minister of a supposedly friendly country. It was the only time he left the embassy in his two days in Iraq...
...Appointed a new Apostolic Delegate to the U.S.-the Most Rev. Egidio Vagnozzi, 52, who has served as papal envoy to the Philippines since 1949. Archbishop Vagnozzi, the son of a Roman clerk, spent virtually all his career in the Vatican diplomatic service, has also had experience in the U.S. as secretary to the Apostolic Delegation from 1932 to 1942. In the U.S. post, Vagnozzi succeeds Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, whose new duties include posts in three of the Sacred Congregations...
Died. Anabel Taylor, 78, wife of Myron C. Taylor, retired (1938) board chairman of U.S. Steel, personal envoy to the Vatican of Presidents Roosevelt and Truman; in Manhattan...
...learned early that mamma gave daddy 10s. a week with which to maintain his prestige. On the evidence of his Memoirs, it would seem that Montgomery never allowed himself much more. Having received the surrender of German forces at the end of World War II, he received the envoy of Marshal Rokossovsky, who wished to know his tastes before giving him a post-victory lunch? Which wines did he prefer? Montgomery was addicted to water. Cigars? He did not smoke. The Russian murmured that they had some women at headquarters available for VIPs. Monty was not interested: women were...