Mrs. Luce Goes To Washington
mn a ee LONDE, beautiful and brilliant" (according to Time), where the average Congressman is "bald, baggy and bumbling," Claire Booth has now entered Congress as Republican member for Connecticut. The wife of Henry Luce, editor of the magazines Time, Life and Fortune, Claire Booth has had a bril-
liant career as author and playwright (European Spring, The Women, Margin for Error, Kiss the Boys Good-bye). When first asked to run for Congress, she declined, saying "When you go to Washington you either break your heart or rot your brains... . It takes a dashing personality to get office, and it takes brains properly to discharge the duties. Holding office and getting it ate not the same." And it is in no picnic spirit that Mrs. Luce goes to Washington. "In these puzzling and heartbreaking days," she wrote, after her nomination as Republican candidate, "a Congressman must assume a heavy burden of responsibility. I knew this job was a challenge to stouter hearts and better brains than mine. Nevertheless, I felt, in all humility, that should I be nominated and elected to Congress I was more qualified to deal with it than any other candidate who had so far presented himself in Fairfield County. I have seen the horrors of total war close at hand on the battlefronts of the world, I have eye-witnessed the tragic mistakes of European politicians who have made these horrors inevitable for their people .. ."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 178, 20 November 1942, Page 10
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