"Actually, I've always called myself an eastern-seaboard international liberal," Clare Boothe Luce declared last week, as she explained why she had threatened to enter the race for the U.S. Senate ...

When Clare Boothe Luce stepped off the Italian liner Andrea Doria in April, 1953 to become U.S. ambassador to Italy, she walked into a nation in crisis. The Italian national elections were just coming ...

The Henry Luce Foundation has awarded a $230,400 grant to the University of Chicago to support four one-year Clare Boothe Luce Graduate Fellowships for women entering Ph.D. programs in Astronomy & ...

Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Clare Boothe Luce appeared on Meet the Press in December 1956, the week she retired as Ambassador to Italy. At the time, according to ...

Simple, but elegant was the way that Clare Boothe Luce ordered her surroundings. The second wife of Time, Life publisher Henry R. Luce, she was mistress of a 59-acre estate in Stamford, Conn., and a 7 ...

Time magazine dubbed Clare Boothe Luce America’s first renaissance woman after a long career as an author, playwright, journalist, politician and ambassador. By 30, she had been named managing editor ...

Clare Boothe Luce was an American writer, politician, diplomat, and public conservative figure. A versatile author, she is best known for her 1936 hit play The Women, which had an all-female cast.