Word: eva
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smack in the midst of the first sessions, Eva Perón will show up in Rio. For her there will be more parties-at the presidential palace, at the town hall, at the Foreign Office. And would Argentina's President Perón join his wife in Rio? Firmly the Brazilians said no. "He wouldn't be fool enough to try to steal some of Truman's thunder...
...Government had been pouty about A.P. for some time, especially since a June dispatch had relayed the uncomplimentary comment of a London daily on Eva Peron's proposed British visit. * Foreign Minister Juan A. Bramuglia discreetly let it be known that it might be a nice idea for slight, 39-year-old Rafael Ordorica, head of the A.P. bureau, to leave. Last week A.P. Boss Kent Cooper called Ordorica home "for consultation," because, said he, the correspondent had been in Argentina for six years, and it was time they had a chat...
Nibelung Nonsense. British Historian Trevor-Roper, whose book is the August co-choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club, picks up the pieces where Gisevius drops them and reconstructs a Wagnerian drama of the suicide "love death" of Hitler and Eva Braun. His evidence, gathered from documents and survivors, is circumstantial but pretty convincing. From the Führer-bunker, deep under the Reich Chancellery garden, the war "was directed by somnambulist decisions," he says. Russian shells crashed down overhead; Berlin was almost surrounded; in G.I. slang, the doomed party leaders were getting "bunker happy." Hitler himself deteriorated rapidly...
...Eva Peron is a most prominent man's wife. It is obvious that Mr. Peron knows what TIME could not possibly know about Eva's heart and soul, and that is the reason why he chose her as his wife...
...tall, whip-smart young Jesuit named Father Hernan Benitez saw to it that Eva Perén's visit to Paris was the works. He showed up in the French capital ahead of time, quickly signed up the big shots for dinners and receptions, arranged a sightseeing schedule that omitted few historical monuments. But Father Benitez, who is both Evita's chaperon and confessor, could do nothing about the weather. The weather was cruel...