Was Time magazine's war correspondent during World War II.
Her hobby was doing jigsaw puzzles.
After graduating from high school at 16, Clare left home and found a job with a company that manufactured paper novelties.
Announcing the nominees for Best Director at the Oscars in 1952, Luce did not know how to pronounce John Huston's name. She said, "and - and - is it John Huss-ton or John Hoo - ston?".
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume
Two, 1986-1990, pages 557-559. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,
1999.
Inducted into the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame in 1994.