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...plump, blonde actress named Eva Duarte, then occupying the apartment next to that of Labor Minister Juan Peron, got into a hot argument with creamy-skinned Libertad Lamarque, then the country's top screen and radio actress. Libertad imperiously leaned across the table, gave Eva the last slap she was ever to receive in public, and stalked off with her own admirers. A moment later, according to the story, Tango Singer Hugo del Carril walked by to find Eva alone and in tears. He draped a friendly arm around her shoulder and said...
...bring along an elderly fellow in civilian attire and introduce him to the officers as 'You remember Sergeant So-and-So. He and I fought together at So-and-So.' Sometimes if you happen to mention the name of a ranker he'll slap his thigh and declare: T knew him before his mother's milk was dry on his lips...
...decibels, and mugging like a young chimp playing Maurice Chevalier, Robert mows them down with Lucky Pierre (first in French, and then with an English translation). Then he plows them under with a number entitled Don't Put a Dent in My Heart (but "hit me, beat me, slap me around"). He also does a lavish imitation of that well-known grief machine, Johnnie...
Frank H. Finch '53, Chairman of the Kirkland Social Affairs Committee, called Grote's refusal to merge dances "in poor taste and a direct slap at the Interhouse Committee...
...information on a new headquarters building, though details of the building's vital "war room" were printed in the Communist papers. They had picked up the information from workmen. The blackout on news has also prevented SHAPE from counteracting propaganda from Moscow. When Malenkov recently took a backhanded slap at SHAPE by saying Russia's armed forces were no bigger than in 1939, NATO officials refused to comment to newsmen. Not until a month later, when the matter was no longer in the news, did Lord, Ismay say weakly: "I would say that [Malenkov's claim...