Word: alo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...couple of years ago by Columbia's bearded bush-beater, Mitch Miller. One of the best of the polysyllabic-vowel school, e.g., "There's a wall between us, and it's not made of sto-o-o-one/ Although we're together I feel so alo-o-o-one"), she blasts out her ballads in what, if she did not use phony electronic echo effects, would be a good voice. A $750-a-week nightclub performer (last week, Boston) who hit the charts heavily last year with Miracle of Love, Eileen may have another hit with...
Since May Day, when Dictator Juan Perón denounced the U.S. wire services for an "infamous campaign of lies," few dispatches from the United Press. Associated Press and International News Service have been printed in Argentina. Last week Carlos Vicente Aloé, governor of Buenos Aires province and publisher of five dailies, passed the new word to the Peronista press. Said Aloe: "Perón in his goodness has pardoned A.P., U.P. and I.N.S. all their sins even when they don't deserve it." The grudging concession had been won from Perón by Milton Eisenhower...
...26th day of every month (the day Evita died). Carrillo thought the candle would last 100 years or more. ¶ Schoolkids got prizes for poems and essays praising Evita. They were also told that she "got sick because she kissed the ill, the lepers, the consumptives." ¶ Carlos Aloé, super-Peronista governor of Buenos Aires province, fired an employee who refused to wear a black tie. A Buenos Aires youth was arrested for laughing on a streetcar. "Attitudes like this are antisocial," said Aloé. ¶ Eva's political cronies in high office, who stand to retain power...
...Aloé found that Argentine textbooks were shot through with excerpts from the works of Benjamin Franklin, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Browning, Grimm, Schiller and Turgenev-all subversive influences, in the Peronista view. "A repulsive state of affairs," declared the governor. He named a committee to scourge the foreign authors from the schoolbooks. "The schools," he decreed, "must teach the child the mysticism, the soul and the sentiment of Peronismo...
Minister of Education Armando Méndez San Martin, unwilling to appear less ardent than Aloé, joined in the brainwashing. Fixing on the Estrada publishing house as the worst offender, he banned its third, fourth, fifth and sixth-grade readers. Last week cops raided schools and stores to confiscate Estrada books. Congress lent a helping hand: it made Eva Perón's The Explanation of My Life required reading for all schoolchildren...