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...Frank N. (for Nicholas) Belgrano Jr., 58, president of the First National Bank of Portland, was appointed chairman of California's Transamerica Corp., replacing James F. Cavagnaro, 69, who retired. Apparently because new Chairman Belgrano was given executive powers equal to his own, Transamerica President Sam H. Husbands, 62, promptly resigned his $75,000-a-year job in a huff. Belgrano, the son of the president of San Francisco's Banca Popolare Fugazi (one of the foundations of A. P. Giannini's Bank of America empire), was a $35-a-week messenger for the Bank of California...
...summer night in 1945, a group of Argentine theater and radio people sat talking politics around a table at Buenos Aires' Radio Belgrano. A plump, blonde actress named Eva Duarte, then occupying the apartment next to that of Labor Minister Juan Peron, got into a hot argument with creamy-skinned Libertad Lamarque, then the country's top screen and radio actress. Libertad imperiously leaned across the table, gave Eva the last slap she was ever to receive in public, and stalked off with her own admirers. A moment later, according to the story, Tango Singer Hugo del Carril...
...This World. For his half-hour programs of folk song and plain song, interspersed with religious talks, Argentina's Radio Belgrano paid Fray José a record 60,000 pesos ($6,750) for eight broadcasts. But the money no longer went for the upkeep of lavish homes in California and Mexico. Fray José, bound by a vow of poverty, had turned it over to a Franciscan seminary now abuilding in Arequipa, Peru...
...incidental beneficiary was the management of Buenos Aires' powerful "Radio Belgrano." For two long years the station had put up with Perón's mistress, Eva Duarte, a third-rate actress who had demanded top-flight treatment. Soon after the good news came over the wire, Manager Juan Cossio got Eva on the telephone: "You needn't come to work tonight...
Cossio: "Neither you nor your company are wanted in Radio Belgrano tonight or any other night. Goodbye...