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...office, to work from 9 to noon receiving delegations of workers and trade unionists, hearing hard-luck stories and doling out advice and aid. A battery of secretaries is always on hand to take notes and handle a voluminous correspondence. In the afternoons, after a quick lunch with Perón, Evita is on her rounds again, visiting factories, addressing workers or distributing largess in the best bread-&-circus style...
...Argentine Government announced recently, Eva has given away in her husband's name some $4,280,000 worth of schoolbooks, clothes, shoes, furniture, toys, cakes and cider. The gifts are always accompanied by one of Eva's flowery speeches, with constant references to the "heart of Perón" and the "heart of Evita." So standard have these phrases become that opposition Cartoonist Tristan draws bejeweled Eva as a blank face with a heart-shaped mouth as her only identification. Last November, when Evita traveled to the sugar-rich Tucumán province, where sugar workers live in abject...
...close friends and many bitter enemies in the land of her conquest. Even the most ardent Peronistas are divided as to whether she is a boon or a blight. She constantly interferes in state affairs, and certain it is that her highhanded palace intrigues have earned Perón many an enemy he might not otherwise have had. Last fall Eva threw the Argentine Senate into a furor when she charged into a sacrosanct closed session to demand immediate appointment of some friends as judges. The outraged Senators politely told her to scram. When Evita complained to Juancito, the entire body...
...debate over her trip led two deputies to send challenges to duel to a Radical Party colleague. Eva's enemies have a way of disappearing from the Government. Her family and friends are equally apt to hang on through thick & thin. Eva's brother is now Perón's personal secretary; her eldest sister Elisa is virtually the political boss of Junín. The husbands of Eva's two other sisters each hold lucrative political appointments...
Last week, in an expensive flowered dress and white picture hat, her burnished, bleached gold hair in sleek rolls over her ivory nape (Italians compared her to Lana Turner), Eva Perón bared her soul to Italy's League of Women Voters. "I am a woman of the people," she said. "All my efforts, all my longings and all my concerns are directed to support women's just aspirations." Eva and the women of Italy sighed deeply. Then, smiling graciously, Argentina's First Lady accepted their gift: a 1554 copy of the Divine Comedy-by Dante...