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Lockout. What, Argentines wondered, had become of la Señora's reported vendetta with the Defense Secretary? What about the army's warnings to the President? The Peróns had obviously come to terms with the military brass. But what were the terms? Even the best-informed porteños did not know. But there were some guesses. Among the best: 1) Evita would gradually retire from public life; and 2) Perón would follow a more hard-boiled attitude toward labor...
...afternoon, Evita met Noticias Publisher José Agusti, asked him bluntly if it was true that he had had offers for his paper. Shrewd businessman Agusti, onetime bitter enemy of the Peróns, replied that he had, but that he had not taken them very seriously. Eva persisted: "How much would you take, to allow you a profit?" Agusti named the fat figure of 6,000,000 pesos ($1,254,600). "As of right now," said Evita, "Noticias is mine...
Debussy on Saint-Saëns' musical tours of Europe and Africa: "Does no one care sufficiently for Saint-Saens to tell him he has written music enough and that he would be better employed in following his belated vocation of explorer...
...Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Marian Anderson, singing Dvorak's Songs My Mother Taught Me, Saint-Saëns' My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice, and the spirituals, Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen and My Soul's Been Anchored in De Lord...
...scrubbing his fiddle discordantly. Then he stopped cold for a dozen bars, holding his fiddle like a broken toy. After embarrassing moments, Swaap got back on the track. After him on the program came French Pianist Janine Weill. She got midway through the last movement of Saint-Saëns's Piano Concerto No. 4, then her fingers became riveted to the keys. The orchestra struggled on by itself for 40 bars before Madame Weill fell in again...