Packet 8: Tossup 7

A lobbyist with this married surname lost a McCall’s advice column for her Catholic conversion and was later poisoned with arsenic as ambassador to Italy. Dwight Macdonald often disparaged the 1930s period when he and James Agee worked for a man with this surname, whose missionary father names a tent-shaped (10[1])chapel designed by I. M. Pei at Tunghai University. While spying in DC, Roald Dahl was tasked with seducing a one-term Connecticut (10[1])congresswoman with this surname who had Isamu Noguchi strike out her name from Frida (10[1])Kahlo’s painting The Suicide of Dorothy Hale. That author of a 1936 (10[1])play with an all-female (10[1])cast, The Women, (10[1]-5[1])took (10[1])this surname (10[1]-5[1])by marrying the publisher who declared (-5[1])an “American Century.” (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])give this surname (10[1])of the conservative activist (10[1])Clare Boothe (10[3])and the founder of the magazines (10[1])Fortune, Life, (10[1])and Time, (10[1])Henry. ■END■ (10[2])

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