Clare Booth Luce

Clare Booth Luce
noun
United States playwright and public official (1902-1987)
• Syn: ↑Luce
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑dramatist, ↑playwright

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Clare Booth Luce [Clare Booth Luce]
(1903–87) a US politician and journalist who also wrote plays. She was the managing editor of Vanity Fair magazine (1933–4). Her best-known plays include The Women (1936), which became a 1939 film with roles for 135 women and no men, and Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1938). Luce was a Republican member of the House of Representatives (1943–7), and she later became the US ↑ambassador in Italy (1953–7). Her husband Henry Luce (1898–1967) started Time magazine.

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