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Good Selling. Most publishers have seen the wisdom of playing ball or selling out. Only four or five papers throughout the country are still in opposition to the regime. Of B.A.'s twelve leading dailies, ten are in the Peronista editorial groove; only the conservative Prensa and Nation hold out, under pressure...
...Havana, Ernest Hemingway was interviewed by Prensa Libre, which at last revealed the subject of the novel Hemingway has been writing at the past six years. "It'll be about the earth, the air, and the sea." Added Prensa Libre: "Hemingway is a complex figure without precedent. Quite a few regard him as the reincarnation of Benvenuto Cellini...
Smart old Grassi Diaz knew what he was doing. After María Helena's debut (once again she sang with Gigli), Buenos Aires newspapers broke out in a rash of praise. Said La Prensa: "A great success . . . She has a pure, generous, fresh and moving voice . . . [She] has shown rare qualities which promise a brilliant career...
...removed, and a new law permits political opinion and activity-so long as it is in favor of the regime. Newspapers which thundered against Castillo's decrees have with but one exception been silenced by Perón's subsidies and newsprint restrictions ; and even great La Prensa is visibly weakening. Recently the government decreed that either Argentines or foreigners may be jailed for such general crimes as 'promoting discords or antagonisms dangerous to the public tranquillity...
...Voters. Nevertheless the Argentine show helped Perón at home. For once (and just a fortnight before the congressional elections), the entire press stood with his government. Thundered the anti-Perón La Prensa: "No Argentine citizen will ever agree that his government should have to ask permission in order to occupy Antarctic lands belonging to the national patrimony...