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...deferred action on Remorino's tendered resignation for a while, possibly to keep the herding from looking like a stampede. Last week, with Remorino disabled by a liver ailment, Perón at last decided to act. Into the ministerial chair slipped Lawyer Ildefonso Félix Cavagna Martínez, 50, lately a special ambassador charged with working out Perón's proposed economic hookups with neighboring Chile, Paraguay and Bolivia...
...feature film, The Squaw Man, in 1913, Pioneer Goldwyn chuckled: "What a trio to go into the movie business! I had seen one movie-something with Broncho Billy [G. M. Anderson] chasing a train. Jesse and Cecil had never seen any!" After Director DeMille had inexpertly filmed The Squaw Mart (with Dustin Farnum and Winifred Kingston) under inadequate stage-type lighting and shipped it off to New York, Sam Goldwyn ruefully telegraphed: "Film awful. You show only half the actor's face, the rest is in darkness. I'll have to sell the film at half-price." DeMille...
...Morgenstern family has just made the great social leap from the Bronx Park East to Manhattan's Central Park West. Marjorie is a blue-eyed, brown-haired beauty who can scarcely see past her next prom date. But eagle-eyed Mama Morgenstern is already shopping in the marriage mart...
...invitations for the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty, for the parties of the Vanderbilts and the Morgans. Tiffany's has always been a place where the well-bred aristocrat felt at home.* Its atmosphere of well-mannered opulence is more like a diplomatic reception than a trade mart. A greying, well-groomed clerk will compare the merits of two solitaires in a well-modulated murmur, but never, never press a customer to buy. Since cash registers are noisy, Tiffany's does not permit them; when money must be handled, clerks take it to unobtrusively placed cashiers...
...only thing that remains now," says tactful Archbishop Martínez, "is to change the constitution. But this is not yet possible...