Clare Boothe Luce

"Oh, sure, we all took acid. It was a creative group--my husband and I and Huxley and [Christopher Isherwood," recalled Mrs. Luce, wo was, my all accounts, the grande dame of poswar American politics" pg. 71, Martin Lee, Acid Dreams.

"In the early 1960s, both Clare and Henry were friends of philosopher, author, and LSD advocate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Heard" title="Gerald Heard">Gerald Heard</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-14">[14]</a> They tried LSD one time under his careful supervision. Although taking LSD never turned into a habit for either of the Luces, a friend of theirs (and biographer of Clare), Wilfred Sheed, wrote that Clare made use of it at least several times.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-15">[15]</a>"

"She attended the Cathedral schools in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_City,New_York" title="Garden City, New York">Garden City</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrytown,New_York" title="Tarrytown, New York">Tarrytown, New York</a>, graduating first in her class in 1919 at the age of 16. [Source: Clare Boothe Luce, Author and Diplomat, by Joseph Lyons, Chelsey House Publisher, 1989, p 26]. Her ambitious mother's initial plan for her was to become an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actress" title="Actress" class="mw-redirect">actress</a>. Clare understudied <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Pickford" title="Mary Pickford">Mary Pickford</a> on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a> at age 10, and had a small part in Thomas Edison's 1915 movie, The Heart of a Waif.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-8">[8]</a> After a tour of Europe with her mother and stepfather, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr.Albert_E.Austin" title="Dr. Albert E. Austin" class="mw-redirect">Dr. Albert E. Austin</a>, whom Ann Boothe married in 1919, she became interested in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage" title="Women's suffrage">women's suffrage</a> movement, and was hired by Alva Belmont to work for the National Woman's Party in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_Falls,New_York" title="Seneca Falls, New York">Seneca Falls, New York</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce#cite_note-9">[9]</a>"

Clare Boothe Luce

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