Word: eva
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Television Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). Eva Gabor in The Gesture...
Johnny was soon racing all over the U.S. (he won the Elkhart Lake, Wis. race twice), Europe and South America, where he won the "Eva Perón Stakes," the National Argentine Sports Car Race, in 1951. He often drives for famed U.S. Sports-Car builder Briggs Cunningham,* and in last November's Pan-American race he became the first U.S. driver since the days of Barney Oldfield to drive a car (Mercedes) sponsored by Daimler-Benz...
...were still getting kicked in the shins by boys," recalls Mrs. Eileen Archibold, a girlhood friend, "one of them gave Mamie a snakeskin. It was a real honor." Mamie made regular Saturday streetcar pilgrimages to the Orpheum Theater to drink in vaudeville performances by Blossom Seeley, De Wolf Hopper, Eva Tanguay, Harry Lauder and other such glamorous figures. She "dressed up" in adult finery at every opportunity. Boys swarmed around the Doud house, and Mamie fed 'them cookies and Welch's grape juice, and allowed them to play at a pool table in a basement game room...
...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...
Bucking the Trust. The 20 centavos that Hugo paid for Eva's coffee was the best investment he ever made. A street singer as a child, he had already risen to popularity as a crooning film star. But it was his good standing with Evita Peron that raised him to political power in film and radio circles as head of the actors' union, and enabled him to become the only independent film producer in Argen tina. With Evita's support, he was able to buck the powerful Argentine Film Producers' Association, even though...