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...hunting: last year the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug solemnly reported that he had shot the largest ibex ever killed in the Slovene mountains. He is also an inveterate movie watcher, favoring westerns and detective films. He lives alone, having a year ago banished from public view a third wife, Jovanka, 32 years his junior. She had apparently incurred Tito's displeasure by promoting the careers of army officers who shared her Serbian background. That kind of partisan behavior is anathema to Tito, a native Croatian, who has held together the six-nation Yugoslav coalition by sternly avoiding any appearance...
Since June, Josip Broz Tito's third wife, Jovanka, has been missing from the aging (85) President's side. Ill health? Marital problems? Last week party officials were whispering to Western journalists in Belgrade that Jovanka was, in fact, in big political trouble. Unbeknownst to Tito, Jovanka had allegedly overstepped her position by lobbying for the promotion of Serbian officers who were close friends from her home district of Lika. That kind of politicking is unsettling in Yugoslavia, where traditional friction between Serbs and Croats may pose a danger to national unity when Tito dies...
...Jovanka was reported to be under house arrest in the presidential residence. Party officials said Tito had approved the investigation of her lobbying, and, obviously, he would decide on her punishment. That might be mild or firm. As one Yugoslav editor commented last week, "Caesar's wife must be beyond reproach. At least that's how Caesar feels...
...enlivened the affair by attempting to sell one of his new poems." -"I have never considered myself a beauty," Elizabeth Taylor told a Ladies' Home Journal interviewer, who seemed understandably dubious. Well, then, who is beautiful? "Ava Gardner, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, Brigitte Bardot, Raquel Welch." Also Madame Jovanka Tito, the wife of Yugoslavia's President. "She has an inner vitality, an inner glow, great genuine charm and a beautiful smile, but she is an enormous woman -you could sit on her chest." As to how the Taylor beauty will survive the years, the lady herself...
...successful Hungarian couturier ("I was born on the cutting-room table"), she founded her establishment in the Budapest of Ferenc Molnar and Béla Bartók. Still, the fact that after postwar years of obscurity, she thrives today and retails her wares to the likes of Jovanka Tito, the Marshal's wife, illustrates a new wrinkle in dialectical materialism. Fashion, long considered frivolous and bourgeois, is once again fashionable throughout Eastern Europe...