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  Clare Boothe Luce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Luce won reelection to a second term in the House in 1944 and was instrumental in the creation of the Atomic Energy Commission and began warning against the growing threat of international Communism.
Luce's support was rewarded with an appointment as ambassador to Italy, confirmed by the senate in March 1953.
Not long afterward, Luce fell seriously ill with arsenic poisoning caused by paint chips falling from the stucco that decorated her bedroom ceiling, and was forced to resign in 1956.
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 Claire Boothe Luce - Demopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
In 1942, Luce won a Republican seat in the United States House of Representatives representing Fairfield County, the Fourth Congressional District of Connecticut.
Luce's support was rewarded with an appointment as ambassador to Italy.
In 1956, Gen. Giovanni De Lorenzo was named to head SIFAR on the recommendation of U.S. Ambassador Claire Boothe Luce, the avidly anticommunist wife of the publisher of Time magazine.
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 TIME Media Kit | About | Bios | Founders | Luce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Luce was born on April 3, 1898 in Tengchow, China, the son of an American missionary.
Luce was voted "most brilliant" of his class at Yale and, after graduation, parted ways with Hadden to study history at Oxford University for a year.
Luce supported many organizations and programs, such as the Save the Children Federation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and United Service to China, Inc. He was the recipient of 19 honorary degrees as well as many awards for his journalistic innovations, business success, democratic principles and dedication to the American dream.
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 Claire Boothe Luce spurt Claire Boothe Luce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Anne Clare Boothe, the illegitimate child of dancer Anna Snyder and William Franklin Boothe, was born in New York City, New York on April 10, 1903.
Clare Boothe Luce died of a brain tumor on Oct. 9, 1987 at the age of 84 in her Watergate apartment, Washington D.C. Table of contents
Luce maintained her association with the ultraconservative wing of the Republican party.
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 Henry Luce
Henry Luce, the son of a missionary, was born in Tengchow, China, on 3rd April, 1898.
Luce, who remained editor-in-chief of all his publications until 1964, was an influential member of the Republican Party.
Luce said that Pawley had gotten the idea of putting together a fleet of speedboats-sea-going "Flying Tigers" as it were-which would be used by the exiles to dart in and out of Cuba on "intelligence gathering" missions.
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 NameTraq | Last Name: Boothe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Boothe, who developed the office park from 1990 to 1996, owned six of the nine buildings in the Class A office park.
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 Time Magazine - Henry R. Luce
Luce first came to the U.S. when he was 15 to attend the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut.
Luce died in 1967, and the magazine is now the flagship of the largest media conglomerate ever, Time Warner.
Fifty-seven years ago, Luce proclaimed that the world was in the midst of "The American Century." His pronouncement is still echoing.
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 HI_Rome_1954_AmbClaireBoothLuce.html
Playwright and politician Claire Boothe Luce was born 95 years ago on 10 March 1903, at New York City.
Luce wrote for and edited Vogue and Vanity Fair as well as writing plays, three of which were later adapted into motion pictures.
Luce died 9 October 1987, at Washington, DC.
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 Claire booth luce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
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 Luce Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
Luce issues a revolutionary wake-up call to the church and home about the cultural battle for America's teens' hearts, minds, and souls.
Ron Luce, one of the top youth communicators, first wrote the book on "Live God Loud" and now it is being made into an EZ Lesson Plan.
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 giles-guthrie.com: People of Note - Show Biography for Claire Boothe
During the next five years, Luce blossomed as a successful Broadway playwright, with hit plays such as 'The Women', which was later adapted for the screen and is still occasionally seen on television.
In 1941, Luce and her husband toured China and reported for Life magazine on the status of the war with Japan.
In 1942 Luce was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives on a campaign platform that claimed President Roosevelt had brought the United States into World War II unprepared.
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Clare Boothe Luce - sometimes erroneously spelled Clare Booth Luce or Claire Booth Luce or Claire Boothe Luce.
Clare Boothe Luce, the daughter of a successful businessman, was born in New York City on 10th April, 1903.
Claire Booth Luce quotes, Searchable and browsable database of quotations with author and subject indexes.
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 Clare Boothe Luce: Biography
A member of the Republican Party Clare Luce was elected to Congress in 1942 and represented Connecticut for the next four years.
Clare Luce developed extreme right wing views and became well known for her outspoken opposition to communism and her support for free enterprise.
Clare Boothe Luce died of a brain tumor on 9th October, 1987.
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 Clare Boothe Luce | Topic Definition | Find the Meaning and Define the Answer of Clare Boothe Luce
Clare Boothe Luce (April 10, 1903 – October 9, 1987) was a Republican member of the House of Representatives (1942-1946), representing Fairfield County Connecticut, an ambassador to Italy, a playwright, and associate editor of Vogue and Vanity Fair.
A conservative icon, she was well known for her anti-Communist views, as well as her advocacy of fiscal conservatism.
She was married to the famous magazine magnate Henry Luce, who introduced her to the hallucinogen LSD in the late 1950s and early 60s.
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 Clare Boothe Luce - Women Come to the Front (Library of Congress Exhibition)
Though she covered a wide range of World War II battlefronts, Luce considered her war reportage merely "time off" from her true vocation as playwright.
Nonetheless, Luce endured the discomforts, frustrations, and dangers encountered by even the most seasoned war correspondent.
Anxious to convince fellow Americans of the dangers of isolationism, Luce wrote a vivid, anecdotal account of her four-month visit to "a world where men have decided to die together because they are unable to find a way to live together."
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 "Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987" Correspondence: Thomas Merton Center
Thomas Merton's Correspondence with: Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987
Her husband after a remarriage was Henry R. Luce, who was president of Time magazine, and his death in 1964 allowed her to retire to Hawaii, but she remained active in Republican politics.
Clare Boothe Luce writes to Merton in 1948 to thank him for his books.
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 Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) : Library of Congress Citations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Title: Clare Boothe Luce on politics in religion [sound recording].
Boothe urges the United States to state its war aims and cautions against listening to the non-interventionists.
References: Brokaw, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987 Booth, Clare, 1903-1987 Boothe, Clare, 1903-1987 nnaa Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903- Luce, Claire Boothe, 1903-1987 Notes: Her The women...
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 St. John's University -- Academics & Schools -- Graduate -- Chemistry Professor Selected for Two Prestigious Awards
Around the same time, she was also notified that she’d been named a recipient of a Clare Booth Luce Assistant Professorship award, the “single most significant source of private support for women in science, engineering and mathematics,” according to the Henry Luce Foundation which administers the program.
She was nominated for this prestigious award, which is actually made to St. John’s University as one of the 13 universities specifically designated in Mrs.
Professor Florio’s research is focused on how molecules behave, or “self-assemble,” at surfaces, a subject that has implications for nanotechnology (the science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules), for example, in solar cells and semi-conductors.
new.stjohns.edu /academics/graduate/pr_aca_051012.sju   (446 words)

  
 Program Listing - Program 212   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
After hearing an excerpt from Luce's play The Women, host Leonard Rubinstein notes that many of Luce's critics described her as "a merciless denegrator of her own sex." Fearnow responds that Luce insisted the play was misinterpreted and denied that it was against women as a whole.
The play was a satire of a certain group of women in a particular class who had nothing better to do but cause trouble for each other with their incessant gossiping.
Fearnow explains that even Luce belived that her creative talents were killed by these changes in her life.
www.rps.psu.edu /otl/programs/212.html   (244 words)

  
 Clare Booth Luce biography
On Nov. 23, 1935, Clare Boothe, now 32 years old, was married to Henry Robinson "Harry" Luce, who was 37 years old.
On Feb. 28, 1967, Henry Robinson Luce was stricken with a sudden heart attack and died in a Phoenix hospital.
At her Watergate apartment on Oct. 9, 1987, Clare Boothe Luce died of a brain tumor at the age of 84.
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 Clare Boothe Luce - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Clare Boothe Luce - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Luce, Clare Boothe (1903-87), American playwright, legislator, and diplomat, born in New York City, and educated at private schools.
Luce, Henry (1898-1967), American editor and publisher, who introduced the concept of the weekly newsmagazine.
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 THE FEMINIST CHRONICLES
In addition to saving the life of the pregnant woman, it proposed that abortion be justified when there was a substantial risk to the physical or mental health of the woman, for congenital defects, and when the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest.
The U.S. Senate confirmed Claire Boothe Luce as ambassador to Brazil (04/28/59) but she resigned (05/01/59) because of a relentless one-man campaign against her appointment by Senator Wayne Morse.
Morse described her as "unqualified" and "emotionally unstable" though some thought the attacks were because she was married to Henry Luce, editor-in-chief of Time, Fortune, and Life.
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 CNN - Papers reveal that Clare Boothe Luce used LSD - Oct. 22,1997
The records, some of which were made public this month, document the conservative socialite's experiences with the hallucinogen during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Luce worked at Vanity Fair and Vogue, wrote plays and was married to Henry R. Luce, founder of Time magazine.
She served as a Connecticut congresswoman and was appointed ambassador to Italy in 1953.
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 Claire Luce - Moviefone
American actress Claire Luce appeared in many Hollywood and British films during the '30s.
Clare Boothe Luce, the daughter of a successful businessman, was born in New York City...
The goal of the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute is to engage, inform, and connect conservatives across the country who will lead and shape the future of...
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 Claire Boothe Luce Lecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
We have to help these millions of people to enjoy that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness which the American Declaration of Independence promises to Mankind.
Chairman, one of Clare Boothe Luce's sharper epigrams was: A great man is one sentence.
And as an equal partner of the United States, upholding a new post-communist world order, it is -- to borrow Clare Boothe Luce's most famous line -- "Globaloney".
www.reagansheritage.org /html/reagan_luce_thatcher.shtml   (3619 words)

  
 New Line Revives 'Women' Remake
The 1939 movie version of Claire Boothe Luce's play The Women is one of the true classics of modern cinema.
It sounds like the result will be a far cry from the biting satire of Luce and more like the softball comedy of Nora Ephron (expect lots of talk about favorite movies and a 70s soundtrack).
But you know, it's not like Rosalind Russell and her pals were really any good.
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 Boothe Theater Broadway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
City co-star Cynthia Nixon, who will appear in a Broadway revival of Clare Boothe Luce's The Women, the theater community shares Somlyo's...
Booth Theater - The Pillowman: tickets, seating chart, info at New...
This year Otto Preminger makes his stage debut in Claire Boothe's comedy Margin for...
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 Clare Boothe Luce
From 1930 to 1934 she held editorial positions on such magazines as Vogue and Vanity Fair.
She wrote three successful plays, The Women (1936), Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1938), and Margin for Error (1939), all noted for their acid wit and all later filmed.
A Republican, Luce represented Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1943 to 1947.
www.distinguishedwomen.com /biographies/luce.html   (169 words)

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