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...lady diplomats were not howling oratorical successes. Mrs. Perle Mesta, party-giving U.S. envoy to Luxembourg, called her speech "Women as Partners." She began by saying: "This is one of the most exciting moments of my life," a line which might have been lifted straight from Call Me Madam, a musical comedy about her. Sample cliches from her address : "It is a great thing to be an American woman ... In America today women are a tremendous force." Mrs. Mesta wore a chic black dress and liberal strands of pearls and looked, withal, as though she had just come in from...
Last of the liberty-loving U.S. celebrities to turn up in Cuernavaca was Musi-comedienne Ethel (Call Me Madam) Merman. She blew into town just as the divorce gates were closing. But a local official in Juarez, a quick-divorce city in Chihuahua on the Rio Grande, came to the rescue. He assured her by telephone that she would be welcome in Juarez and would get "prompt and satisfactory service." So Ethel went to Juarez, and found that the service there was still prompt indeed; within 48 hours she had a divorce from Hearst Executive Robert D. Levitt...
Divorced. By Ethel (Call Me Madam) Merman, 43, trumpet-voiced musicomedienne: Robert Daniels Levitt, 42, Hearst promotion man, her second husband; after eleven years of marriage, two children; in Juarez, Mexico (see THE HEMISPHERE...
...doctrines they preached without personal ambitions came to be known by their names . . ." Mende warned the leaders to get their guidance from on high and to beware of "pseudo doctrinaires," who try to fashion their own Peronism. "The thoughts of General Perón and the thoughts of Madam Eva Perón, these can be ascertained instantly, because we have all their speeches from 1943 to date, duly classified in an ingenious index...
Swordsticks & Umbrellas. He was a slim, tall youth, who quickly developed such a belly that, when asked by a lady in World War I why he was not "out at the front," he was able to retort: "Go round to the side, Madam, and you'll see that I am." When, enveloped in a vast cloak and toying with a swordstick, he sat his 300 pounds down to dream on a wayside bench, passers-by "either take me for the village idiot or for one of Harrod's delivery vans." He liked to believe that his life...