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While Argentina's Ramirez Government went its lone unneighborly way, the Argentine's longtime Ambassador to the U.S., suave Don Felipe Alberto Espil, remained a Good Neighbor. He and his Chicago-raised Señora had made the red-carpeted Argentine Embassy a model of diplomacy. Last week Buenos Aires called them home...
...Señor. Ambassador Espil, 56, is sometimes called the "Mona Lisa of the Pam pas" for his thought-concealing smile. He first came to the U.S. in 1919 as first secretary to the Embassy, London-tailored, expert at the tango, an escort of Wallis Spencer years before she became the Duchess of Windsor. But Don Felipe was no mere tailor's dummy. He studied the U.S. and its economics. By 1931 he had become Ambassador, and in the next twelve years operated smoothly on friction-fraught issues...
...Señora. Don Felipe also spent 14 of his years in the U.S. waiting for the hand of Courtney Letts, a tall, dark-haired, slender member of Chicago's onetime "Big Four" of socialite beauties. Don Felipe first courted her in the '20s, but she married two wealthy Americans first. Finally, three weeks after her second divorce, Courtney Letts Stillwell Borden became Senora de Espil, who in turn became one of the world's ten best-dressed women, and an able diplomat herself...
Satire, Ridicule. When Señor Délano, Chile's pioneer motion-picture producer, launched Topaze in 1931, his friends predicted it would flop. It clicked from the start. Last week, twelve years old, it was prospering (45,000 subscribers, in a country of only 5,000,000 inhabitants, 55% illiterate...
...away. Said he calmly: his revolt was not against the constituted authority, since that authority was himself. Pudgy, earnest José Pezet declared that not a drop of blood would have been spilled. He had even provided a nurse to accompany the conspirators to the Presidential Palace, lest Señora de la Guardia faint...