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...went the strong man of his opposition : Minister of the Interior Luis César Perlinger, shrillest of the U.S.-haters, so nationalist that he could easily be taken for a Nazi. Stronger than ever was Colonel Perón, Minister of War and Secretary of Labor and Welfare, who now became Vice President as well. His new office was noteworthy because the Vice-Presidency had been General Edelmiro Farrell's last steppingstone to the Presidency...
When Paul-César Helleu was young, in the '70s, he ran away from a comfortable Paris home, studied at the Beaux Arts, made friends with Sargent. He painted cathedral interiors and scenes of Versailles in autumn, reached his greatest renown as an etcher of pretty women in all seasons. He led a pleasant, quasi-boulevardier life, was happy with his wife in a satiny apartment near the Bois de Boulogne...
...oversight that Helene Sar-deau (Mrs. George Biddie) was not mentioned in TIME'S story. She should have been credited with her bas-reliefs, entitled Violence and Charity. One depicted a brute strangling another brute; the other, figures with outstretched hands succoring a dying comrade. But let Mr. Biddie be advised that TIME does not intentionally misquote anything. Furthermore on the rare occasions when TIME undertakes to quote a correspondent, its readers are so advised...
...MURDER-Helen McCoy- Morrow ($2). The actor who portrayed a dying man in a Manhattan revival of Sar-dou's Fedora turns out to be very dead indeed when the curtain goes down. Psychiatrist-detective Basil Willing, working on tenuous clues and a wide knowledge of abnormal psychology, finally snares a persistent and excellently hidden criminal in a trap that almost ends the doctor's own career. Credible stage atmosphere and an airtight plot...
...likes testimonial dinners. Behind the scenes, he managed a mammoth (7,500 guests) dinner given him when he became U.P. president. It was run on railroad time. The grapefruit was served at 6:07, the steaks at 6:18, etc. In 1940 Jeffers, no socialite, was king of AK-SAR-BEN ("Nebraska" backwards), Omaha's big annual blowout, a sort of civic triumph which the city awards to its sons who are outstandingly successful...