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	Clare Boothe Luce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anne Clare Boothe, the illegitimate child of dancer Anna Snyder and William Franklin Boothe, was born in New York City.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce (1263 words)

	Stage on Screen . The Women . Clare Boothe Luce \| PBS
		Clare's second husband, Henry R. Luce, president of Time, Inc., would be an equal match to her wit and ambition.
		Clare would go on to be a war correspondent for LIFE and eventually would become a congresswoman from Connecticut and later ambassador to Italy.
		Perhaps it was Clare Boothe Luce's rather humble beginnings that fueled her ability to poke fun at and, at the same time, celebrate her own rather lofty social status.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/stageonscreen/thewomen/clare.html (376 words)

	Clare Boothe Luce CSB Home Page
		Luce's intention was "to encourage women to enter, study, graduate, and teach" in fields where there have been obstacles to their advancement: physics, chemistry, biology,meteorology, engineering, computer science, and mathematics.
		Clare Boothe Luce, the widow of Henry R. Luce, was a playwright, journalist, U.S. ambassador to Italy, and the first woman elected to Congress from Connecticut.
		Clare Boothe Luce Scholars will be chosen on the basis of their demonstrated record of achievement as well as their potential to make significant contributions when they have become established in their fields.
	employees.csbsju.edu /hjakubowski/cblucehomepage.htm (447 words)

	Clare Booth Luce biography
		Clare Boothe's original ambition was to become an actress and she understudied Mary Pickford before enrolling in Clare Tree Major's School of the Theatre.
		Not long afterward, Clare fell seriously ill with arsenic poisoning caused by paint chips falling from the stucco roses that decorated her bedroom ceiling, and was forced to resign in 1956.
		Clare maintained her political activity and, for several years, was associated with the ultraconservative wing of the Republican party.
	www.lkwdpl.org /wihohio/luce-cla.htm (1742 words)

	Clare Boothe Luce: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Clare Boothe Luce died of a brain tumor on Oct. 9, EHandler: no quick summary.
		The women was a modern comedy of manners by clare boothe, which opened on broadway theatrebroadway in 1936 at the ethel barrymore theatre with...
		Luce won reelection to a second term in the House in 1944 and was instrumental in the creation of the Atomic Energy Commission United States Atomic Energy Commission quick summary:
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/cl/clare_boothe_luce.htm (3274 words)

	Clare Boothe Luce: Biography
		Clare Boothe Luce, the daughter of a successful businessman, was born in New York City on 10th April, 1903.
		Clare commented Morse's actions were the result of him being "kicked in the head by a horse." This remark proved so controversial that Clare resigned the ambassadorship a few days later.
		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.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKluceC.htm (1632 words)

	Luce, Clare Boothe on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		LUCE, CLARE BOOTHE [Luce, Clare Boothe] 1903-87, American playwright and diplomat, whose name originally was Anne Clare Boothe, b.
		Clare Boothe Luce and the Jews: A Chapter from the Catholic-Jewish Disputation of Postwar America.
		CLARE BOOTHE LUCE; A BICENTENNIAL-YEAR DISCUSSION ON THE DECLINE OF THE WEST.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/L/Luce-Cla.asp (340 words)

	GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY - CLARE BOOTHE LUCE PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION: COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
		Clare Boothe Luce was born Ann Clare Boothe to William Franklin Boothe and Anna Clara Snyder on March 10, 1903 in New York City.
		Luce's parents were never married and they permanently separated in 1913 after which Anna Snyder, a former chorus girl, was left to fend for herself and her two young children.
		Clare's poise and charisma attracted much attention, and she was invited to be the featured speaker at the 1944 Republican National Convention.
	www.library.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/cl265.htm (1412 words)

	AllRefer.com - Clare Boothe Luce (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Clare Boothe Luce 1903–87, American playwright and diplomat, whose name originally was Anne Clare Boothe, b.
		Witty, outspoken, and an articulate political conservative, Luce began her career writing for Vogue and Vanity Fair in 1930, soon becoming managing editor of the latter magazine.
		She married publisher Henry Luce in 1935, and the following year her play The Women, satirizing wealthy New York matrons, succeeded on Broadway.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/Luce-Cla.html (242 words)

	CLARE BOOTHE LUCE PROGRAM AWARDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		According to the terms of the CBL Program, the undergraduate scholarships will be awarded to two highly qualified female students who are computer science majors.
		The purpose of the CBL Program, according to Luce’s will, is to “to encourage women to enter, study, graduate, and teach in fields where there have seemingly been obstacles to their advancement.” These field areas include physical and life sciences, mathematics, computer science and engineering.
		Clare Boothe Luce was an author, editor, playwright, war correspondent, Republican congresswomen and U.S. ambassador.
	www.stonehill.edu /compsci/luce.htm (233 words)

	Luce Canon - The apotheosis of a memorable bitch. By Margaret Talbot
		Born in 1903 to parents who never married (her father, William Boothe, was already married to someone else), Clare was the repository of her socially frustrated mother's yearnings for a brilliant destiny.
		When Clare applied for her first magazine job--writing picture captions for Vogue--and heard nothing from the editors, Morris writes, "she put on a gray dress with white collar and cuffs, went back to the Graybar Building, and persuaded an assistant that she was a new employee.
		Time-Life gives a brief salute to Clare Booth Luce in a photo essay on women "Pioneers." Several Luce quotations are sprinkled about the Web: Look for her on censorship and on Nixon.
	www.slate.com /id/2986/device/html40/workarea/3 (1398 words)

	CLARE BOOTHE LUCE PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION: FOLDER LISTING CONTINUED
		DESCRIPTION: 2 photographs of Ann Clare Brokaw solo and with her mother, Clare Boothe Luce, taken by the Associated Press the night before ACB was killed in a car accident on 1/11/1944.
		DESCRIPTION: 4 photographs of Ann Clare Brokaw with her mother, Clare Boothe Luce, taken by the Los Angeles Times in 1944 shortly before ACB was killed in a car accident.
		DESCRIPTION: 2 photographs of a portrait of Ann Clare Brokaw posing with dolls, which was later donated to the Doll Library in Greenwich, CT by Clare Boothe Luce.
	www.library.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/fl/f265}6.htm (2370 words)

	A Good Little Devil
		Clare Boothe Luce was a public official and social critic who expressed her views in private correspondence; fiction and plays; political and social commentary; newspaper, magazine, and editorial work; and on the lecture circuit.
		In 1945-1946, Luce employed the services of public relations consultant Edward L. Bernays, who advised her on sensitive issues such as the controversy that arose when the Daughters of the American Revolution, of which Luce was a member, refused to admit African Americans to Constitution Hall.
		Luce's early political activities are documented in folders concerning her involvement in the New National party movement of 1932 and her 1934 appointment to the National Recovery Administration's Code Authority for the Motion Picture Industry.
	lcweb4.loc.gov /master/mss/eadxmlmss/2003/ms003044.xml (2592 words)

	CWHF-Clare Boothe Luce
		Blessed with intelligence and an ambitious mother, Clare was sent to the best schools her mother could afford, where she excelled academically and was able to create professional networks.
		In 1941 Clare Boothe Luce agreed to run for political office, filling the seat held by her late step-father, Dr. Austin.
		She was devastated by the death of her daughter in an automobile accident and, following the death of Henry Luce, Clare lived in Hawaii much of the year, returning to Washington in the 1980's where she died in October 1987.
	www.cwhf.org /hall/luce/luce.htm (277 words)

	Visual materials from the papers of Clare Boothe Luce.; Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress, ...
		Clare Boothe Luce as Ambassador to Italy and other personal and family photographs ca.
		Portraits of Clare Boothe Luce and photographs depicting her personal and professional life ca.
		Aspects of Luce's personal life are revealed in images depicting her family; prominent friends and acquaintances; family vacations; portraits of Luce as a child and young adult.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /service/pnp/eadxmlpnp/html/pp002009.htm (3002 words)

	LUCE, Clare Boothe (1903-1987) Guide to Research Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Topics discussed during the interview with Clare Boothe Luce include impressions of President Eisenhower, the 1952 campaign, the Foreign Service, Ambassador to Italy Trieste, the Ambassador to Brazil, the Republican Party; and John Foster Dulles.
		In the letter, Clare Boothe Luce acknowledges the letter from Private Bobbitt and sends her thanks and best wishes to him.
		Correspondence from Clare Boothe Luce to Wayne Gard between 1932 and 1933.
	bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=L000497 (521 words)

	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.
		Luce's unsettling observations led longtime friend Winston Churchill to revamp Middle Eastern military policy.
		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."
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/wcf/wcf0010.html (367 words)

	Clare Boothe Luce Biography
		Ann Clare Boothe was born April 10, 1903, in New York City.
		Despite the family’s poverty, Boothe’s mother managed to send Boothe to private schools, with the hopes of grooming her to marry a wealthy man.
		Boothe received a settlement from the divorce that allowed her to continue living in comfort.
	www.enotes.com /the-women/46008 (164 words)

	eBay - clare boothe luce, Nonfiction Books, Magazine Back Issues items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Discoverers by Clare Boothe Luce, Daniel J. Boor...
		Clare Boothe Luce;: A biography, by Stephen C Shadegg
		Clare Boothe Luce Shadegg '70 HCDJ 2nd print'g Literary
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	Caltech Press Release, 9/9/1999, Dianne Newman
		PASADENA--The California Institute of Technology is pleased to announce a recent grant of $498,427, in support of a five-year Clare Boothe Luce Professorship in geobiology from the Henry Luce Foundation.
		The Clare Boothe Luce Program is administered by the Henry Luce Foundation, which was established by Mrs.
		Luce established the program "in recognition that women have already entered the fields of medicine, law, business and the arts, and in order to encourage more women to enter the field of science."
	pr.caltech.edu /media/Press_Releases/PR12002.html (426 words)

	Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) : Library of Congress Citations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		An excerpt from the radio program Union now in which journalist and politician Clare Boothe and British journalist Dorothy Thompson discuss political issues surrounding the war.
		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...
	www.mala.bc.ca /~mcneil/cit/citlcluce1.htm (2082 words)

	Clare Boothe Luce Math and Science Camp - Trinity, a comprehensive university in Washington, DC - Swimming Soccer ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Clare Boothe Luce Program stands alone as the single most significant source of private support for women in science, engineering and mathematics.
		The second Clare Boothe Luce Math and Science Summer Camp is a three-week day program that will introduce young women to careers in the sciences using laboratory activities and other hands-on experiences.
		All students in the Clare Booth Luce Math and Science Summer Camp will have the opportunity to use the Trinity Center for Women and Girls in Sports, our new 75,000 square foot, state-of-the-art fitness complex free of charge.
	www.trinitydc.edu /news_events/2005/camps/mathscience.php (382 words)

	Clare Boothe Luce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Born Ann Clare Boothe in New York City to an ex-chorus girl and an itinerant musician who soon deserted his family, Clare and her younger brother knew poverty first-hand.
		In 1941 Luce agreed to run for political office, filling the seat held by her late step-father, Dr. Austin.
		She was devastated by the death of her daughter in an automobile accident and, following the death of Henry Luce, she lived in Hawaii much of the year, returning to Washington in the 1980's where she died of brain cancer in October 1987.
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho3/luce_c.htm (332 words)

	Two Stevens women engineering students are designated
		The selection process of the Clare Boothe Luce Scholars was coordinated by the Lore-El Center staff working in conjunction with a faculty committee.
		By 1942 she was fully involved in wartime politics and ran for and was elected as a representative to Congress for Connecticut's Fourth District.
		Luce was named ambassador to Italy in 1953, becoming the first American woman to represent her country to a major world power.
	www.stevens-tech.edu /press/pr/pr482.htm (1082 words)

	Geology & Geophysics - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Clare Boothe Luce Graduate Fellow Amy Draut working at her field site in Louisiana.
		Clare Boothe Luce Graduate Fellow Amy Draut is conducting a multidisciplinary study of sedimentation processes along the Louisiana coast, where rates of coastal land loss and wetland deterioration are the highest in the US.
		The fellowship that Amy Draut holds is one of two established at WHOI in 2000 under The Henry Luce Foundation’s Clare Boothe Luce Program, which promotes the advancement of American women through higher education in the sciences, engineering, and mathematics.
	www.whoi.edu /science/GG/dept/education/a_draut_luce.htm (315 words)

	Clare Boothe Luce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Luce, Clare Boothe (1903-87), American playwright, legislator, and diplomat, born in New York City, and educated at private schools.
		A Republican, Luce represented Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1943 to 1947.
		In 1953 President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed her ambassador to Italy; the first American woman ambassador to a major country, she held the post until 1957.
	www.distinguishedwomen.com /biographies/luce.html (169 words)

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