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Clare Boothe Luce

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The Resume

    (March 10, 1903-October 9, 1987)
    Birth name was Anne Clare Boothe
    Writer & managing editor of Vanity Fair magazine (1929-34)
    Married Time magazine managing editor Henry Luce (November 23, 1935)
    Launched Life photojournalism magazine with husband (November 23, 1936)
    World War II correspondent for Time and Life magazines
    Elected to two terms (R-Conn.) U.S. House of Representatives (1943-1947)
    U.S. Ambassador to Italy (March 1953-January 1957)
    Member of President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (1973-77; 1982-87)
    Wrote the plays 'Abide With Me (1935),' 'The Women (1936),' 'Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1938),' 'Margin of Error (1939),' 'Child of the Morning (1951)' and 'Slam the Door Softly (1970)'
    Wrote the screenplay 'Come to the Stable (1949)'
    Wrote the books 'Stuffed Shirts (1933)' and 'Europe in the Spring (1940)'
    Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan (1983)
    Died of brain cancer at age 84

Why she might be annoying:

    She was an activist in the women's suffrage movement.
    She had a nervous breakdown.
    She experimented with LSD.
    She had a long term extramarital affair with financier and presidential adviser, Bernard Baruch.
    After securing exclusive rights to the JFK assassination film footage, she refused to let the film be shown in its entirety for exam, fueling conspiracy theories.

Why she might not be annoying:

    Her father abandoned the family when she was nine.
    At age 10 she was an understudy for Mary Pickford on Broadway.
    Her first husband was a violent alcoholic who beat her.
    She received inside information about a possible attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor and relayed it to the F.B.I., but was ignored.
    Her only child, Ann Brokaw, was killed in a car crash at age 19 while attending Stanford University (January 11, 1944).
    She was the first to break the news of the build-up of Russian missiles in Cuba in 1962.
    Several famed quotes are attributed to her, including 'No good deed goes unpunished,' and 'Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.'

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Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 5 Votes: 20.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 5 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 17 Votes: 47.06% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 23 Votes: 47.83% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 17 Votes: 47.06% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 15 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 18 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 37 Votes: 48.65% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 37 Votes: 43.24% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 40 Votes: 37.50% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 90 Votes: 46.67% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 125 Votes: 52.80% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 348 Votes: 44.25% Annoying