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...cause of Perón's blast was La Prensa's sympathetic coverage of charges made in the Chamber of Deputies three weeks ago against IAPI, the official state trading agency. A hard-hitting anti-Perón deputy named Agustin Rodriguez Araya had introduced into the record 40 questions that he wanted to ask the Minister of Economy, lAPI's head. A typical question: "What compelling reasons were there for handing over without payment to the majordomo of the presidential country house 20 jeeps which were later found being used by a morning newspaper...
Sallow-cheeked Agustin Lara is the most artful fashioner of the libido-loaded lyrics of Mexico's popular songs. He is also Mexico's most prolific popular composer. Since his first success with Mujer (1927), a song dedicated to all women, Lara has averaged 15 songs a year, most of them hits...
...invited Lara to a party next night at her apartment. She apologized for not having a piano, and asked him to bring a guitarist along. Instead, Lara sent a baby grand with the note: "To the incomparable María Félix from her admirer, Agustin Lara." They were married soon after. Every Mexican knows how Lara's famous María Bonita was composed during an enraptured trip to Acapulco with María. But neither such tributes nor three mink coats kept her from divorcing him in 1947 for incompatibility...
Shrewd Evita Peron knew a good chance when she saw one. The letter on her desk, addressed to Agustin Americo Merlo of Argentina's Washington embassy staff, was a routine solicitation from the capital's Children's Society, Inc. for a contribution for needy Washington children. Smart Señior Merlo had got the society's O.K. to send the request to Buenos Aires for Evita to peruse...
Last week in Washington, Agustin Merlo phoned the society to say that the Maria Eva Duarte de Péron Social Assistance Foundation of Argentina had been pleased to send enough clothes for 600 of the poor children of Washington. Told that the State Department had no objections, Mrs. Fay Vawters, co-director of the Society, said bravely: "We are going to accept [the gift] with all the grace that God in his mercy can bestow upon us." Evita had made the most of her chance...