Papers, 1862-1988 (bulk 1930-1987).

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Papers, 1862-1988 (bulk 1930-1987).

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Correspondence file (1913-1987), relating particularly to politics, religion, and literary and artistic endeavors; secretarial file (1933-1987); literary file (1919-1987) containing business records, articles, essays, reviews, commentaries, journals, notebooks, memoirs, novels, short stories, plays, nonfiction, pamphlets, and proposals, together with notes, drafts, fragments, and other writings; congressional and ambassadorial correspondence and subject files; scrapbooks (141 v.); and other papers. The collection documents Luce's multifaceted career as an editor at Vanity Fair; author of such Broadway hits as The Women (1936), Kiss the Boys Good-bye (1938), and Margin for Error (1939); advisor to Henry Robinson Luce on publishing matters at Time, Inc.; supporter of Wendell Wilkie in the 1940 presidential campaign and subsequent Republican Party activities; World War II correspondent for Life magazine; U.S. representative from Connecticut; syndicated newspaper columnist and contributor to McCall's magazine; U.S. ambassador to Italy; and member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (1972-1977 and 1980-1986). Topics include diplomacy, intelligence service, international relations, national defense and security, public roles for women, and Luce's conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1946. Correspondents include Michael Barrie, Bernard M. Baruch, William Benton, William F. Buckley, Carlos Chávez, May-ling Soong Chiang, Clarita de Forceville, Gerald Heard, John F. Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy, Marjorie Wolf Kittleman, John Davis Lodge, Joseph W. Martin, Ruth Morton, John Courtney Murray, Nesta Obermer, Elizabeth Cobb Chapman Rogers, Spyros Skouras, Fulton J. Sheen, Clarence K. Streit, Mark Sullivan, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Rosie Waldek, George Waldo, Helen Wrigley, and Darryl Zanuck.

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