CONGRESS GLAMOUR
“It was a lady from California and >■ lady from Connecticut who caused a craning of necks in the public galleries on the opening of the United States Congress recently,” writes a Washington correspondent. These two women represent the battle of glamour and wit which is expected to occur in the nation's legislative balls as a result of the election of Helen Gahagan Douglas, wife of Melvyn Douglas, the kinema star, and the re-election of Clare Boothe Luce, dramatist, to the House of Representatives. Long famed as being among America’s most beautiful women, the first a blonde and the second a brunette, their glamour has extended from the stage to- the political hustings, where both are known for the vigour of their stand in affairs, national and international. Mrs Dc-uglas is intensely pro-Roosevelt and Democrat; Clare Luce is violently anti-Roosevelt and Republican. Those who consider Congress usually a wearisome place now look forward to west and east meeting in the shape of Mrs Douglas and Miss Luce to the accompaniment of their clashing beauty and wit.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25798, 20 March 1945, Page 3
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177CONGRESS GLAMOUR Otago Daily Times, Issue 25798, 20 March 1945, Page 3
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