Word: luce
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Visiting San Francisco, Hollywood, Tennessee Valley, Chicago, and New York, Mesbahzadeh met President Truman, Secretary Stimson, and other cabinet members, several congressmen, including Senators McKeller and Connally and Representative Clare Booth Luce. He spoke to these leading statesmen concerning Iran's contributions to the war-effort and, stating that America has definite responsibilities in the Near and Middle East, expressed the hope that in peace as in war she will continue to lend support to the small nations of the East...
Since her return from an eight-week visit to Europe two months ago, Connecticut's Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce has sent many a verbal slingshot at Communist Russia...
...approved Russian fashion, Critic Zaslavsky called Critic Luce a Fascist and "Goebbels' unconsoled political widow." He added: "This lady does not like us. Furthermore she hates us with a passion which is more African than American in violence...
Congresswoman Luce made no reply. But the Bridgeport (Conn.) Sunday Post (circ. 40,243), best newspaper in her home district, rose valiantly to her defense, roared back at the Russian giant: "Pravda . . . practically froths at the mouth. But it gives no answer to the carefully collated, factually documented articles which Mrs. Luce has been inserting in the Congressional Record...
...photography ranks with Henry Luce's best; its acting is natural; its humor (James Gleason, Keenan Wynn) is appealing; it does not run to absurd lengths. Yet "The Clock" drags, mostly because it is too full of little climaxes and its big climax is poorly timed. What's worse, Leo roars too loudly and the MGM-Sigmund Romberg-Reader's Digest flavor is too strong. And millions of people will love...