Word: luce
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clare Boothe Luce paid tribute of a sort to Eleanor Roosevelt, another writer, by urging her on the Democrats as their ideal candidate for Vice President. Her theory: Harry Truman might well ride into a new term on Eleanor Roosevelt's coattails. "I dare to suggest this winning formula to the Democrats," the Republican ex-Congresswoman concluded, "because it is almost certain that, being men first and Democrats second, they will not have the courage, vision or intelligence to adopt...
...need to worry about coverage. With or without Presidential Candidate (for the sixth time) Thomas, U.S. readers would be exposed to all shades of opinion by all varieties of domestic and imported experts. Among them: Cartoonist David Low (for LIFE); Randolph Churchill and ex-Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce (United Features); Rebecca West (Canada Wide Features) ; Novelists Louis Bromfield and Katharine Brush (I.N.S...
...Jerusalem last week, the A.P. set a record for roundabout communication. A.P. Correspondent Carter Davidson, on the Haganah side of the battle line, was only a few hundred yards across no man's land from A.P. Correspondent Dan De Luce, with the Arab Legion. To communicate with De Luce, Davidson had to send his message via the U.S. consulate to Washington, then to the A.P.'s New York offices, which sent it back to Arab Legion headquarters at Amman, Transjordan, which delivered it to De Luce in Jerusalem. Total straight-line distance: 12,700 miles...
...Nazi Spy." The sure fire true story of the Canadian Soviet spy ring naturally presented itself as his answer: the results could hardly be other than socko for the Box Office. That is, as long as the wind from Capitol Hill and the Kremlin and stockholders such as Henry Luce, didn't change...
...Roper, sired by Rumor, out of Washington, had grown big enough. I wrote to the Daily Worker, and called Mr. Winchell to tell them that no such poll on Mr. Wallace had ever been taken by me, that if and when any such poll were taken, neither Henry Luce nor anyone else either would or could suppress it. As a matter of fact, in over ten years of directing the FORTUNE Survey, neither Mr. Luce nor anyone else has ever tried to suppress any of our polls, despite the fact that Mr. Luce has not always liked their results...