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President & Señora Perón helped usher in spring by attending a regatta at Tigre, where photogenic Evita shocked the decorous by appearing in white slacks and a new hairdo, with hair slicked back into a knot at the nape of the neck and parted on the left instead of in the middle...
Last week, in an expensive flowered dress and white picture hat, her burnished, bleached gold hair in sleek rolls over her ivory nape (Italians compared her to Lana Turner), Eva Perón bared her soul to Italy's League of Women Voters. "I am a woman of the people," she said. "All my efforts, all my longings and all my concerns are directed to support women's just aspirations." Eva and the women of Italy sighed deeply. Then, smiling graciously, Argentina's First Lady accepted their gift: a 1554 copy of the Divine Comedy-by Dante...
...Bridgeport, the Websters dress up and ride in the parade.) Ethel Webster became a good enough bareback rider to receive, and reluctantly turn down, a professional offer. She is also pretty certainly the only non-professional woman ever to ride down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue on the nape of an elephant (on the occasion of Mrs. Hearst's Milk Fund Drive...
...President also had a little gag for White House newsmen. Appearing at his press conference with a bandage on the nape of his neck, he said it was because he had had a growing wen removed. He mentioned this, he said, so that Secretary Steve Early could have a respite from reporters who had heard that the President had been under the knife...
...Duke" was hauling furniture around a set for Born Reckless when Director Raoul Walsh spotted him, ordered him for god's sake not to cut his hair, which had grown shaggy at the nape. Then "Duke" was renamed John Wayne, pushed ahead of some 82 other candidates for the juvenile lead in The Big Trail. He did very nicely with the part. Later he made a personal-appearance tour on which, to his embarrassment, he was required to keep his hillbilly hair in a rich fringe over his collar...