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Last week the convention assembled in Hartford. Former Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce put on a vigorous campaign for the nomination, but the state's Republican leaders were determined to have Wall Street Banker Prescott Bush, and their will was done...
...Africans are drifting toward bitter extremes, and "it seems to be the tendency of the church to be silent or hesitant to speak out." Ahead of 50-year-old Zachariah Matthews now is a year's teaching tour at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary as Henry W. Luce Visiting Professor of World Christianity, a chance to let U.S. churchmen hear, and reflect on, some of the lessons of his life...
Henry Robinson Luce, editor-in-chief of TIME, LIFE, and FORTUNE . . . . . . . . . LL.D...
Done right, Beatrice and Benedick can carry off a play that Shakespeare didn't always do right by. But last week's production, which closed after four performances† completely lacked spin and sparkle. Claire Luce played Beatrice as officiously and coyly as an old maid who has just announced her engagement; Antony Eustrel's Benedick was all O-what-a-gay-dog-am-I. And under Eustrel's direction, the rest of the play offered such tripping and gurgling and spouting as today are banned from high-school auditoriums...
...with a peroxide siren, Crystal Allen, portrayed by Dani Holmgren with just the right nonchalance. Around this situation a succession of humorous characters, ranging from a Countess to a cigarette girl, parade on and off the stage to the delight of everyone. On reflection, they seem stereotyped; perhaps Miss Luce meant them to be that way, for The Women is primarily a satire on drawing-room women of manners and many...