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Fortnight ago Evita was at claws' point with Nina Cascallar, the favorite of one Captain Villegas, Argentine Federal Interventor of National Radios. Their tiff occurred on one of Argentina's national holidays, when so many government officials made patriotic speeches that Radio Belgrano, Buenos Aires' most popular broadcasting station, fell behind schedule. Nina, who goes on the air nightly ten minutes before Evita, wanted to be heard, although her time had already overlapped her rival's. But a Belgrano official let the Colonel's lady have...
Affront to Culture. Although the announcer did not name the butt of his epithet, the Press-Propaganda office promptly hit Belgrano with a 48-hour advertising suspension for "expressions [which] constituted an affront to the nation's culture.and violated the fundamental principles of broadcasting, which today is the greatest vehicle for the diffusion of spiritual, social and moral culture." By the time Colonel Peron could return and lift the suspension, it had cost Belgrano $2,000 worth of advertising time...
Colonel Peron's lady has signed a six-month contract with Radio Belgrano...
...sympathetic superintendents. Earnest Professor George Sylvester Counts sniped at four notable targets: 1) William Randolph Hearst: "A foe of freedom of assembly, speech and press"; 2) Alfred E. Smith: "Once a friend of Education and the common man, he has sold out to privilege"; 3) Past Commander Frank Belgrano of the American Legion: ''He betrayed the idealism and patriotism of the rank & file of American Legion members"; 4) Father Coughlin: "He employs his sacred office to spread confusion, misunderstanding and falsehood...
...informed," said Legionary Belgrano, "that some of you have been here fighting this battle of yours against disease for more than twelve years. I would commend you for your courage and gallantry, were not such commendation needless from me or any other...