Word: eva
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shimmer & Impulse. As a rainbow, shimmering with a new change of clothes at every appearance, coruscating with glittering jewels, shapely, brown-eyed Eva was unbeatable. Spaniards, high & low, took to her with open arms. Up & down the nation for two weeks and four days (TIME, June 23) they feted her, showered her with gifts and, as a grand climax, pinned upon her well-rounded bosom the Grand Cross of Isabella la Católica. Eva loved it. The promise of Franco's bauble had spurred her trip. The other reasons for the extravaganza were not so clear...
Even in the chancelleries where Eva's trip had been planned (President Perón hailed it as "the greatest act of its kind in Argentine history"), anguished ministers kept constant tabs on Eva by transatlantic telephone. "If only," thought some, their fingers crossed, "she'll keep off politics!" At the last minute, four weeks ago, when Eva was about to take off from Morón airport, President Perón had rushed his pet ghostwriter aboard her plane, just in case. But one never could tell about Eva. To the women of Spain, on the first...
Italy was a different story. There were Communists there, particularly in the north, ready to shatter Little Eva's poise with shouted obscenities and angry demonstrations. There were tactless, unreconstructed Fascists, too willing to hail Argentina's best-forgotten wartime associations...
...Rome there were also unpolitical G.I.s on hand to meet Eva at the airport and give a low wolf-whistle as she emerged from her private plane in slick, flower-printed silk pulled skin-tight over her hips and bosom. There was an audience with the Pope, luncheon with the Foreign Minister, a Grand Hotel reception glittering with papal titles, and a dazzling performance of A'ïda under the stars in the ancient Baths of Caracalla. Eva, in black flowered silk with a white fox cape, her hair, ear lobes and shapely neck glittering with diamonds, arrived...
...Likes of Eva. "I like all music, concerts and operas-especially Chopin," said Eva later to a reporter, admitting that her Italian reception, despite the Communists, had been "enchanting." "I don't understand politics," she continued, her alabaster hands fluttering expressively, but "I am profoundly religious." The Pope had been "marvelous." "What saintliness!" said Eva Perón, her brown eyes rolling heavenward...