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THE CHINA MAIL, A SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1959,

A QUESTION FOR EVERY DAY-DREAMING WIFE

Man On The Moon: The Concluding Chapter

Would YOU like to be RETURN TO EARTH

this woman?

Na sodden, grey rainy day when the kitchen is clut-

goes drip-drip-drip-

and you wonder if it will ever get dry-dry-dry, do you sometimes sigh into your teacup and wish you were some- ong else?

Still a woman

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but some other wpmati. A woman who goes places and does things. Things that don't include the laundry.

The Queen, maybe? Princess Margaret? Lov-. rible, wise, old Mrs Roose- velt? Or that other Ameri- can woman—Mrs What's- her-name that femalo ambassador who hits the headlines as regularly as A metronome beats time?

You know the one I mean, Mrs Rare Truth Goose something like that.

What is her name? Mrs Clare Boothe Luce- that's it. That's the one I mean. How would you like to her? What would it like?

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by DEE

WELLS

Diese attributes, she has had a fabulous carcer.

I not exactly shrouded in mystery, her curly life is a little

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report

saya she comes from sound New Eng- land stock”—that's that,

Another more interesting one says she run away from her

Boughly, it would be like mother, who was an ex-chorus

this.

girl. That she shook small- town dust from her feet when she was in her carly 20's, rettled in New York City

You'll have unlimited money. You'd have blonde

and supported herself good looka (that's some by making paper flowers. That she settled in New York thing at 50 plus), brains, Cty is certainly true, But that great vitality, and a hus- is not to say she settled down. band who not only controls Twice-married, the has never a publishing empire (Time, svitied down. Life, and Fortune magu- zines) but has much poll- tical power as well.

You'd lead an exciting, glamorous life. You'd have

From paper flowers she turned to journalism. From fournalism to acting. From acting to play- writing. And in playwriting she had her fist bly success. Her play The Women, a brilliantly cally and witty denunciation

Three plctures from the Clare Boothe Luce scrapbook.

... At the top right she wears casual, country clothes for a visit to 'Sir Winston' Churchill, In the centre: A glamorous evening dress and champagne pizse to receive a greeting from the Duke of Windsor. On the right: A black lace mantilla covers her head for a

visit to the late Pope, A

Bs much fascinating travel at her own sex, ran 82 weeks on as anyone could wish. And Broadway. In New York and heavily dominant you'd have a very consider London alone the phy netted Government.) able

amount of political £80,000. power yourself.

You'd like it? Then let a have a look at what you'd have to be and have to do to get it.

Essential...

To begin with, brains. Abso- Jutely essential, the brains. Then, ruthlessness. No less essential, it must be there both degree

Made into a film (with not a single man in the cast) it was world-wide box-office success,

Her name was made. From then on everything she touched turned to gold.

Of course, song things she turned to were already goldh

A gold mine

Democratic Mrs Luce

WELL SIN WINSTON CHURCHILL'

WITH THE DUKE OF WINDSOR,

WITH PORE PIUS XII.

By JOHN MACLEAN JAMES ROGERS had been on the moon just three hours when he lay down again on the couch in his space rocket, pressed the button marked "Return," folt the motors kick, opened his eyes and saw through the tiny porthola the moon falling away behind him.

He made radio contact with the second approach," It 'would hia bako on the earth and skim a little deeper at 20,000 dicialed his report for the miles an hour, second time, concisely and monotonously.

For the Brst time, the pre- carioumens of hit position struck home to him.

Twice more he would have to radio his report back to ground control, Twice more to make absolutely certain there was on accurate copy somewhere in chao he didn't get back.

There were problema in get ting back. The earth, unlike the moon, has an atmosphere, A rocket which doesn't slow at just the right moment is burned up 10 Bercely that it turns into pure gas,

The earth, unlike the moon, does not have deep dust pile to cushion the shock of a landing ihat does not right.

come

off just

He heard the radio and adjusted the receiver,

cha to'ernah. Forty-eight air- craft were on patról" A largo tug stood by to take the rocket in tow when it came to the sur- face. Ho himself would' ́ be

picked up by a launch from one of the destroyers,

Everything was ready.

The earth seemed green and

cent against the black sky.

that this distance, magni-

The ateak tasted good.

Ho watched the dials. His

contine changed abruptly, his

speed dropped slowly. The trick was working.. It had to... No rocket could possibly carry enough fuel for adequate braking.

Rogers was glad he was not doing his own navigating.

121 out

This operation would be re- peated four more\limes unti} the rocket was slowed to 1,000 miles an hour as it neared the earth's surface. Then the final Down, down, down 20,000, supply of fuel would slow it to 15,000, 10,000, 5,000 miles mere 200 miles an hour for hour. Now he could make landing

the broad expanse of the But something had gone Atlantic. Everything was ding- wrong and present calculations except the temperature. The were that I would hit at 300 thermometer climbed-00, 100, miles an hour. That was why 110, 120. Rogers sweltered. it was being dumped into the

He knew about that. Despite Atlantic.

the slower speed and the cool-

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If too much fuel was used up ing equipment, the friction in space there was only

the one against

atmosphere Beating the rocket, chance.

Fuel-carrying rockets were Its temperature would level circling the earth at 4,000 miles uff, he thought, about 180 de- an hour, at Intervals of 530 grees, than cool down to a

70 by the mild, beginning at 1,000 miles nermal from the earth, By careful hit the water.

He dozed in the heat. manoeuvring in and out of the

Sleepily, he saw the edge of the atmosphere crackle

they

water might manazo to refuel the come up toward him. The dial moon rocket in the air.

showed 400 miles an hour. Rogers amlled and pulled There was not enough fuel left steak out of the hot food locker, to slow the rocket further. He He had nothing to do but est strapped himself down and

elenched his teeth. and wait.

The impact jarred his body. It was a lot worse than landing growing bigger and bigger.

Four more hours. Then the on the moon. skimming would begin. He Then the

emergency hatch tuned in the receiver. He could opened. A naval officer put his hear, already, orders going out head in, and said: "Nice momn= for his pickup.

Ing." Six destroyers were elreling It was over. the area of ocean where he was

They were going to try to

land him in the Atlantic, Just over Ascension Island, for long the receiving point for test rockets from Florido, a careful- ly patrolled stretch of water.

He had noticed and reported that the landing on the moon was just a few miles an hour too He lud not worried. It fast. had been gentle enough.

But

ground control werd afraid something whe fractional- ly wrong with the brake-rockel system. So they were landing him in the ocean. where the shock would be cushioned.

The rocket might sink half a

come up safely,

like? Would Mrs legs, too Republican, too politi-mile into the ocean and stili Luce like to be an ambassador cal-he post should go to a

career diplomat.

Her Republican admirers did an inept job of defending her.

Mr Luce found The brainy, Yes, please, thank you very beautiful blonde Clare irresis- much Indeed, Mrs Luce would. ble. Her est marriage had But not ambassador to just already ended in divorce. His any little old banana republic One. Senator Dirksen, de- own quickly followed sult, In Part 1 of her life unfolds. 1933 they were married. And

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tuppenny-ha'penny

Rogers shrugged. He did not like the idea. But it would be better than being smashed on some rocky surface.

He watched the dial settings.

dinky country e Liechten-clared oratorically: "Don't beat A steady speed of just on 4,000 stein. Something big, please,

a ok bag of bones." As the miles an hour showed on the equipment laughter thundered about him, complex electronic he tried to retrieve his and which checked and plotted his bouncing radio Mrs Luce's dignity by saying: position, by

earth and the old " mean an

bag of signals off the political bones." It made it no moon.

Two poodles

re-

Big It was. Italy, it was. An better.

post usually served for career diplomats. And in February 1953 the new Judy ambassador kissed her good friend Eisenhower good-

Endorsed

There was nothing for him to ido. There were no more but- tons to push unless radio con- trot broke down and he had to take over hand control.

If that happened, he would

She now turned to magazine editing. And the glossy Ameri- can magazine Vanity Fair gave Clare Boothe Luce what was perhaps her first heady draught cf how

to important pleasant it was run things.

Editing conquered, The Wemen behind her, a novel published, she now invaded a byc and set all for her post. Her great and good friend really powerful domain, the Travelling with her were her Ike personally endorsed her. notice the absence of the steady almost exclusively male world two poodles and her husband. Despite all the fuss her appoint-bilp, blip, blip" of the control of politles,

confirmed by the signal which registered the fact The two poodles and the ment was

that everything was functioning In 1942 with all the might husbanal avamed the handsome. Senate. Mra Luce would according to plan. these in the story the time is the cariy at the Luce publications and marble corridors and rooms of as ambassador to Brazil.

He could sleep the money backing her she stood the American Ambassador's But her Republican cham-around twice, in any case. for Congress as a fiercely anti- residence in Rome. Mrs Lace plons, Ike, and Clare herself,

And he was tired, Communist Republicon candi-

roamed all Italy and got in reckoned without the ultimate date from the State of Connec- many a patch of hot water, word of Henry Lues himselt. Ueut.

Her second husband, Henry and quantity. Thirdly, the de Luce, was a gold mine if ever one. As publisher dicated, singleminded wish for there WAB power. More than that, a of Time and Life he was will to power. The power to say enormously rich. As a rich man ww-and mean it-"I will have aud publisher he was a par-

power."

ticularly important and vocal Republican. (At this stage tri

Mrs Lace has all abundance. She has more be- 30%, America is in the midst of aldes, She has brains, money, the depression years anu and ambition that she hasn't Franklin Roosevelt is serving even used yet, Thanks to all his Arst term as President in a

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Within à month of her ar« He put his fool down firmaly. When he awoke, he looked at She got in. And for six years rival in Rome she told the Mrs Luce, had been "scurri-the dials. He had slept for 12 she raised holy hell in Washing Italians how she (and America) lously attacked" in the US. hours. Under the increasing ten. She became the most out- expected them to vote in their Senote. Mrs Lace would not pull of the earth, his speed had spoken member of the Oppost- imminent general election, and go as ambassador to Brazil. crept up despite occasional *Lion, und the Inost Jazor-

cautious applications of tongued woman cer to serve

But will Mrs Luce stay home? rocket brakes by the radky con- In Congress.

Will she give up without,atrol centre-to 10,000 miles an fight her bord-won, much- No Democrat was safe from

In 1954, after

another too enjoyed power? Will she drittour. And it was increasing all her tongue. When ex-Vice Juck Luce spooch, the whole-sut-of-the-headlines into house would take all the fuel President Heary Wallace mildly Halino Press furiously accused witely obscurity? Pavailable to slow him to a muggested that America should her of "interfering in Italian play a more responsible part in affairs." Опе

sinted: paper world leadership, Mrs Luce "She makes us long for an old Butler him and dismissed the folitoned ambassador in striped

idea as "Globaloney."

trousers."

the time.

Temporarily perhaps she may steady 25,000 miles an hour a

he shot into the earth's atmo- do all of these, But no man, rot oven Henry Laco, can keep Then the fun would begin

sphere, a good woman down. Tempera- mentally Mrs Luco is a woman

He dictated his final report do and chatted with ground control. The crucial test was up-

who must go places, must A convent

"A buckle-bruined fringe." visited the Pope. And Democratic President Truman

things. Eventually sho will bounce back in the limelight, proaching. back in the headlines, back in everyone's hair.

The engineers on the ground planned to low down the rocket to 25,000 miles an hour of the It has its points. It is a way as it touched the rim

earth's atmosphere.

The atmosphere would slow

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was a "gone goose" and lacked the 20 straight minutes on the of life. "Toomph." she said, and had beauty of the True Faith, The

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ACROSS

1 Mediated (5).

4 Extreme fright (8).

8 Looking-gloss (6).

10 Chic (5).

12 Neither masculine por

feminino (8).

14: Doom (7).

17 Kit (4)

10 Carried too far (7).

20 Liken (7)..

22 Harvest, (4),

9 Brend of cat (7).

27 Drives back (8).

29 Scratch (5).

30 Standing (0),

31 Unmarried (6).

9 Reassemble (5),

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2 Enchantress (6).

3 Idler (5).

& Point of compass (4).

Bellowed (8).

7 under (6).

Bitter repentance (7),

11 Severe headacho (8),

10 Lays bare (7).

10 Wood-wind Instrument.(4).

16 Spruce (a),

10 Helps (4).

20 Badzes (8).

21 Firework (6).

24 On the move (5).

25 Praise (B).

25 Attempt (8).

28 Bing out (4),

Ş YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Arrolls: 3 Ignorant, 8-Prey; 9 Electing,' 11 Lemonade, 33 Reit, 15. Opulence, 10. Kotreats, 10 Ally, 21 Tuberose, 23- Disposad, 20 More, 27 Resolute. Down! Opkl, 2 Term, 4 Gala, &' Onco,,0 Ague; 7 Tight,^9 Enter, 10 Ndjet, la Expel, 14, Sator, 10 Nogus, 17. Bread, 19. Alder. 20 Labs, 31 201, 32 Bell, 25 Omen, 26 Even.

been chosen by the Democrats Pope got no word in, save an "But would you still like to slightly more, then they would in "one of their more: pixilated occasional, "Yes, Mrs Luce." be her?

moments."

However, he managed the last word. (no mean feat with-fast- tallding Clare), and and tiredly, Yes, yes, - Mrs Luce. But I am a Cathole already."

Her Congressional terma - pired, Clare Boothe Lute threw herself with her characteristic fervour and. publicity-conscious- ntas into her next endeavour. In 1050 Madam Ambassador She found Faith, and wished to Iace was found to be fl with

be received Into the Roman Catholle church. To do so she was personally tutored by New York's TV priest, the dynamic Mgr. Fulton Sheen.:

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She was the most notable Sho convert of many a year. made her drst communion. And her first communion made the headlines.

In 1952 the political, secne changed. The Democrats were out, The Republicans were in, Eisenhower was and Dwight President.

arsenical polsoning. Was it a plot against her lie? Was there

sinister Borgia-esque creature tapping the white powder from a poison ring into the American Ambassador's champagne cock- tall?

There

There were "more headlines,

But it was no plot. was no Borgia, The" ambassa- dor's bedroom celilog was die covered to be faking Some of the paint flakes had got into her breakfast. The paint con- tained artenlo. It was as almplo as that.

Doth Claro Boothe Lace and her husband were old friends Her recovery took some time. And of Eisenhower. Both had sup. But it is now complete, ported his candidacy, she is now in the headifnor

agniri, In American politics, such

support nover spes umewarded. This time over her. rocent What could Prezident” Elach appointment as ambassador to | hover give the Luces that would: Brazil. The Democratie senatora

be a fitting, reward for such lo, the I.B. Congress spoke, out: staunch felandatip? What would heatedly against horl -Too iact=

sicer it back into space. On

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