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...masked ball sponsored by the Foreign Press Club in Rome's glittering Mattèi Palace, Cinemactress Gina Lollobrigida lifted her mask for a better look at a fur-clad stranger, soon recognized her as U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce, fresh from business in Bologna (see EDUCATION). As guest of honor, Gina was proclaimed the "Space Girl of 1954." Translation: she filled more column-inches in foreign publications than any other Italian last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 7, 1955 | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

...chairman of the International Development Advisory Board; Harvey S. Firestone Jr.; Dr. Milton Eisenhower; Eugene Black, president of the World Bank; General Glen Edgerton, president of the Export-Import Bank; James D. Mooney, former executive vice president of General Motors; and TIME'S Editor-in-Chief Henry R. Luce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 21, 1955 | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

...week studded with good dramatic revivals on NBC, the biggest and best was the Producers' Showcase lavish production of The Women. This feline free-for-all, written in 1936 by Clare Boothe Luce, remains an actresses' field day, and Ruth Hussey, Shelley Winters, Mary Astor, Nancy Olson, Valerie Bettis and Cathleen Nesbitt waged an exciting conflict for domination of the manless stage. A few of the more trenchant lines were dropped from the TV version of the play, and Paulette Goddard and Mary Boland seemed miscast as the viper-tongued Sylvia Fowler and the gigolo-collecting Countess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

Producers' Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). Clare Boothe Luce's The Women, with Shelley Winters, Paulette Goddard, Ruth Hussey, Mary Astor, Mary Boland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Feb. 7, 1955 | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...confirm the Premier's words, hundreds of university students gathered spontaneously outside the U.S. embassy in Rome to cheer. U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce, who had gone to the island of Sardinia, got word of the student demonstration and sent a message of thanks, ending with the words: "Long Live Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: A Resounding Yes | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

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