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I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not. -Clare Boothe Luce (March 10, 1903 – October 9, 1987)

She was the first American woman appointed to a major ambassadorial post abroad.

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The National Garden should be composed of statues, including statues of Ansel Adams, John Adams, Samuel Adams, Muhammad Ali, Luis Walter Alvarez, Susan B. Anthony, Hannah Arendt, Louis Armstrong, Neil Armstrong, Crispus Attucks, John James Audubon, Lauren Bacall, Clara Barton, Todd Beamer, Alexander Graham Bell, Roy Benavidez, Ingrid Bergman, Irving Berlin, Humphrey Bogart, Daniel Boone, Norman Borlaug, William Bradford, Herb Brooks, Kobe Bryant, William F. Buckley, Jr., Sitting Bull, Frank Capra, Andrew Carnegie, Charles Carroll, John Carroll, George Washington Carver, Johnny Cash, Joshua Chamberlain, Whittaker Chambers, Johnny “Appleseed” Chapman, Ray Charles, Julia Child, Gordon Chung-Hoon, William Clark, Henry Clay, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Roberto Clemente, Grover Cleveland, Red Cloud, William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, Nat King Cole, Samuel Colt, Christopher Columbus, Calvin Coolidge, James Fenimore Cooper, Davy Crockett, Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., Miles Davis, Dorothy Day, Joseph H. De Castro, Emily Dickinson, Walt Disney, William “Wild Bill” Donovan, Jimmy Doolittle, Desmond Doss, Frederick Douglass, Herbert Henry Dow, Katharine Drexel, Peter Drucker, Amelia Earhart, Thomas Edison, Jonathan Edwards, Albert Einstein, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Duke Ellington, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Medgar Evers, David Farragut, the Marquis de La Fayette, Mary Fields, Henry Ford, George Fox, Aretha Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, Milton Friedman, Robert Frost, Gabby Gabreski, Bernardo de Gálvez, Lou Gehrig, Theodor Seuss Geisel, Cass Gilbert, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Glenn, Barry Goldwater, Samuel Gompers, Alexander Goode, Carl Gorman, Billy Graham, Ulysses S. Grant, Nellie Gray, Nathanael Greene, Woody Guthrie, Nathan Hale, William Frederick “Bull” Halsey, Jr., Alexander Hamilton, Ira Hayes, Hans Christian Heg, Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Henry, Charlton Heston, Alfred Hitchcock, Billie Holiday, Bob Hope, Johns Hopkins, Grace Hopper, Sam Houston, Whitney Houston, Julia Ward Howe, Edwin Hubble, Daniel Inouye, Andrew Jackson, Robert H. Jackson, Mary Jackson, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, Steve Jobs, Katherine Johnson, Barbara Jordan, Chief Joseph, Elia Kazan, Helen Keller, John F. Kennedy, Francis Scott Key, Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King, Jr., Russell Kirk, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Henry Knox, Tadeusz Kościuszko, Harper Lee, Pierre Charles L’Enfant, Meriwether Lewis, Abraham Lincoln, Vince Lombardi, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Clare Boothe Luce, Douglas MacArthur, Dolley Madison, James Madison, George Marshall, Thurgood Marshall, William Mayo, Christa McAuliffe, William McKinley, Louise McManus, Herman Melville, Thomas Merton, George P. Mitchell, Maria Mitchell, William “Billy” Mitchell, Samuel Morse, Lucretia Mott, John Muir, Audie Murphy, Edward Murrow, John Neumann, Annie Oakley, Jesse Owens, Rosa Parks, George S. Patton, Jr., Charles Willson Peale, William Penn, Oliver Hazard Perry, John J. Pershing, Edgar Allan Poe, Clark Poling, John Russell Pope, Elvis Presley, Jeannette Rankin, Ronald Reagan, Walter Reed, William Rehnquist, Paul Revere, Henry Hobson Richardson, Hyman Rickover, Sally Ride, Matthew Ridgway, Jackie Robinson, Norman Rockwell, Caesar Rodney, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Betsy Ross, Babe Ruth, Sacagawea, Jonas Salk, John Singer Sargent, Antonin Scalia, Norman Schwarzkopf, Junípero Serra, Elizabeth Ann Seton, Robert Gould Shaw, Fulton Sheen, Alan Shepard, Frank Sinatra, Margaret Chase Smith, Bessie Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jimmy Stewart, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Gilbert Stuart, Anne Sullivan, William Howard Taft, Maria Tallchief, Maxwell Taylor, Tecumseh, Kateri Tekakwitha, Shirley Temple, Nikola Tesla, Jefferson Thomas, Henry David Thoreau, Jim Thorpe, Augustus Tolton, Alex Trebek, Harry S. Truman, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Dorothy Vaughan, C. T. Vivian, John von Neumann, Thomas Ustick Walter, Sam Walton, Booker T. Washington, George Washington, John Washington, John Wayne, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Phillis Wheatley, Walt Whitman, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Roger Williams, John Winthrop, Frank Lloyd Wright, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright, Alvin C. York, Cy Young, and Lorenzo de Zavala.”

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Clare Boothe Luce Changed Perceptions about Women in Business and Politics

By Patrick J. Mahoney

A resident of Greenwich, Clare Boothe Luce won election to the United States Congress in 1942 as a representative from Connecticut. Her entrance into politics was not her first foray into the public eye, however. By the time of her election, she was already an established author, editor, and playwright. Recognized for her efforts to reshape perceptions of women in the realms of politics and society, Luce later became the United States Ambassador to Italy—the first woman to hold such an appointment to a major European country.

Clare Boothe, born in New York City in 1903, was the daughter of Anna Clara Snyder and William Franklin Boothe, a concert violinist who abandoned his family when Clare was only eight. Despite the family’s challenges, Boothe’s mother ensured that both she and her elder brother, David, received a proper education.

Clare Boothe Luce, David Boothe, and “Buff” Elizabeth Cobbs, posed on lawn, with bicycles, Sound Beach, Connecticut, ca. 1916 – Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

In 1923, Boothe married millionaire clothing heir George Brokaw, who was 23 years her senior. After six turbulent years of marriage and the birth of a daughter, the couple divorced in 1929. Following the divorce, Boothe pursued a career in writing, penning articles for Vogue and later, Vanity Fair (the latter of which she became the managing editor of in 1934).

Second Marriage and Success as a Playwright

In the autumn of 1935, Clare married Henry Luce, the founder and publisher of Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, and Fortune magazines. It was also during this period that she came into her own as a successful playwright. Although her earlier dramatic efforts did not meet with success, the production of her play The Women in 1936 was a Broadway hit, ran for over 657 performances, and became a feature film in 1939. Luce’s talents reached beyond the realm of theater and popular culture, however. At the outset of World War II, she drew upon her earlier journalistic experience to provide Life readers with in-depth first-hand accounts of her travels across the different theaters of war.

Her wartime writings presented a marked criticism of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s handling of the war effort. Furthermore, she caught the eye of influential political figures when she enthusiastically endorsed Republican nominee Wendell Wilkie in his failed 1940 presidential campaign.

With support from leading Connecticut Republicans, Luce announced her congressional candidacy (to represent Fairfield County, the 4th Congressional District) in 1942. Easily winning the seat, she became the first woman to represent Connecticut in the US House of Representatives.

Presidential Recognition

After two terms in office, a grieving Luce chose not to seek re-election, following the death of her only child in a motor vehicle accident. She reemerged in the world of politics in time to lend her support to Republican candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1952 presidential election, however. In recognition of her contribution to his campaign, Eisenhower appointed her United States Ambassador to Italy, a post she held until 1957.

Although Luce retired from public life in 1964, she remained involved in politics in an unofficial capacity, serving as a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, and later under Ronald Reagan. In honor of her lifelong contributions to many areas of American life, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Reagan in 1983. Of her role as a pioneer in advancing the role of women in politics and society, Luce reflected, “Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, ‘She doesn’t have what it takes.’ They will say, ‘Women don’t have what it takes.’”

Patrick J. Mahoney is an adjunct professor in the history department at Sacred Heart University. He also writes the Hartford Historic Places column for Examiner.com.

from Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project https://connecticuthistory.org/clare-boothe-luce/

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Clara Driscoll Lady Tiffany

Clara Driscoll  (15 dicembre 1861 - 6 novembre 1944) 

Nata a Tallmadge, nell'Ohio, dopo aver perso il padre in tenera età, incoraggiata dalla madre, che per provvedere alle spese famigliari di Clara e delle tre sorelle si dedicò all’insegnamento, prosegue la sua istruzione da prima alla Central High School, situata in Willson Avenue (ora East 55 th Strada) fino a frequentare la  Western Reserve School of Design per le donne, oggi Cleveland Institute of Art. 

Nella nuova scuola campeggiava una citazione di James A. Garfield e citata all’iingresso del 1883-84: 

"The most valuable gift which can be bestowed on women is something to do, which they can do worthily and well and thereby maintain themselves”

Tra i vari corsi erano presenti quello di "Design-Ornamentation and its Analysis" e "Landscape from Nature". 

In seguito lavora per alcuni produttori locali come designer, per CS Ransom and Company, un produttore mobili con influenze moresche. 

Nell'autunno del 1888, Clara Wolcott arriva a New York per continuare i suoi studi al Metropolitan Museum of Art School, dove migliora le sue capacità nell’interior design questa esperienza la porterà a trovare impiego presso Tiffany Glass Company.

Nel 1889 si dimise dal suo lavoro, per sposare in prime nozze Francis S. Driscoll, a causa della politica voluta dal sig.Tiffany che vietava l’impiego di donne sposate nella sua azienda. Nel 1892 rimasta vedova riuscì a farsi riassumere da Tiffany.

Vale la pena ricordare che uno sciopero degli uomini della Lead Glaziers e Glass Cutters Union nel 1892, portarono all'assunzione in gran numero di donne da Tiffany per “tagliare" il vetro.

Arrivando a dirigere uno staff tutto femminile di 35 donne la Tiffany Studios Women's Glass Cutting Department più noto come “le ragazze Tiffany”

Clara Driscoll, in white blouse standing far left, with the “Tiffany Girls” on the roof of Tiffany Studios, from about 1904. Fonte: NYTimes

Il sig.Tiffany condivideva la convinzione comune che le donne fossero più adatte degli uomini per lavori manuali e possedessero "gusto decorativo naturale" e percezione del colore maggiore che non gli uomini.

Clara Driscoll ha disegnato nel tempo molte delle più iconiche lampade in vetro di piombo di Tiffany, tra cui la maggior parte degli insetti e motivi floreali, la libellula e farfalla e altri.

Con l'aiuto della designer di Tiffany, Agnes Northrop e della compagna di classe Alice Cleveland e Alice Carmen Gouvy, Clara ha anche progettato l'innovativa tonalità Flying Fish e il mosaico Deep Sea alla base di gioielli in vetro.

In una missiva mandata ai parenti in Ohio scriveva 

the butterfly candle shade … is to be made of little iridescent glass butterflies flying around the candle flame, or rather appearing to fly by means of a network of gold wire made into lines of flight.… In the little picture I am working on the model of the milkweed powder box, another of my designs, that has been made in silver. 

Il suo lavoro non si limitava alla piccola scala un esempio è l'interno della Cappella di Wade di Cleveland , situata nel Lake View Cemetery. Sebbene la stesura dei progetti interni fu in realtà opera di Frederick Wilson.

Nel tempo Clara assunse mansioni sempre più importanti tanto che portarono ad uno sciopero del dipartimento maschile.

In seguuito sospese nuovamente il suo rapporto lavorativo con Tiffany quando si fidanzo nel 1896 con Edwin Waldo, il fratello del pittore e decoratore di New York, George B. Waldo (1867-1904)

Tuttavia il matrimonio non ebbe mai luuogo, Edwin scomparve misteriosamente in un viaggio per ritornare cinque anni dopo, senza alcuna spiegazione o comunicazione con Clara.

Nel 1900 vinse a Parigi alla World Fair un riconoscimento per la sua lampada Libellula che Clara aveva disegnato per Tiffany Glass Company. Fu uno dei rari momenti in cui si sparse la voce che Mr. Tiffany non progettava personalmente ogni prodotto della sua azienda.

Infine nel 1909 sposo in seconde nozze Edward A. Booth, un matrimonio di 35 anni che ha portato la coppia a vivere tra  New York e una casa a Point Pleasant, nel New Jersey ed infine in vecchiaia in Florida, mantenendo la casa di Point Pleasant come residenza estiva fino alla morte di Clara nel 1944 e poi di Edward nel 1950.

La storia di Clara torno alla luce grazie agli sforzi di Martin Eidelberg professore emerito di storia dell'arte presso la Rutgers University e il ritrovamento delle lettere nel 2005 infatti la signora Gray - ex curatrice della New-York Historical Society, che stava lavorando a un suo libro di Tiffany - è andata alla Queens Historical Society, dove è rimasta stupita di trovare un sacco di lettere di Driscoll, scritto a sua madre e alle sue sorelle durante la sua permanenza lavorativa a New York

Fonti:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/arts/design/25kast.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Driscoll_(Tiffany_glass_designer)

http://www.cia.edu/news/stories/breaking-tiffanys-glass-ceiling-clara-wolcott-driscoll-1861-1944

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Fernanda Gattinoni, stilista italiana e fondatrice della maison omonima.Nata a Cocquio-Trevisago, in provincia di Varese, il 20 dicembre 1906, la giovanissima Fernanda si trasferì negli anni venti a Londra, dove fa un periodo di apprendistato da Maison Molyneux, per perfezionare i suoi interessi verso il disegno di abiti sartoriali. Sul finire del decennio, l’attrice statunitense Ina Clairela…

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02-20 (Original Caption) Impressive and simple funeral services were conducted today in the Stanford University Chapel fro Ann Clara Brokaw, 19-year-old daughter of Congresswoman Clare Booth Luce ... http://dlvr.it/NQZ9N5

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02-20 (Original Caption) Impressive and simple funeral services were conducted today in the Stanford University Chapel fro Ann Clara Brokaw, 19-year-old daughter of Congresswoman Clare Booth Luce ... http://dlvr.it/NQX48m

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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.  - Clare Boothe Luce (March 10, 1903 – October 9, 1987)