Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eleven months since he returned from Washington, suave "Ivan" Ivanissevich has proved himself the most versatile of all the men around Perón. He had hardly settled down at home before he had a chance to add a couple of cubits to his considerable stature as a surgeon. Amid blaring Peronista publicity, he took out the President's appendix (TIME, March 15). From surgery he moved to culture, soon became the high priest and top philosopher of Peronism...
Good Food. Ivan never stoops to understatement in praising Perón and the regime. He once told a Buenos Aires rally: "When in Washington, far away from the fatherland, in the solitude of the embassy, I first read of the, rights of labor as propounded by our President, I was so moved that I instinctively and reverently stood...
...gets her share of praise, too. "Thanks to Señora Perón," he said recently, "more than 600,000 schoolchildren now have clothes, good food, books and games." As Secretary of Education, Ivan himself has shepherded 300,000 schoolchildren on "useful vacations" designed to get them better acquainted with their own country...
...jury of selection had included only one Catholic: Jesuit Father John LaFarge, who acted as chairman. Few of the artists chosen were Catholics, either. Among them were such big names as Ivan Mestrovic-whose stilted but forceful Madonna and Child was perhaps the best sculpture in the show-and a number of accomplished craftsmen like Oronzio Maldarelli (TIME, Nov. 15). Henry Rox, who carves vegetables for a hobby, contributed a gaunt, convincingly adolescent Joan of Arc, and Helene Sardeau (Mrs. George Biddle) made the same saint look as if she had just been blackjacked...
According to the tentative spring program, the film series will present Room Service, Odd Man Out, and The Informer. The University Theater management, Gootenberg pointed out, feels these inovies will cut down its audiences. It has no objection, however, to foreign films like Shoe Shine and Ivan the Terrible...