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Elliott, Of Course. First off there was tall, heavy-lidded, 41-year-old Howard Hughes, who very nearly killed himself recently in his own experimental plane, and who, as producer of The Outlaw, made the bust of Jane Russell famous from coast to coast. Then there was a sleek and portly Hughes pressagent and talent scout named Johnny Meyer. Meyer, it appeared, had been a great spender of Hughes's money. And whom had he entertained? None other than Interior Secretary Julius A. ("Cap") Krug, for one. According to the amazingly detailed Meyer expense sheets which the committee...
...British Navy was not embarrassed. Two sleek destroyers closed in on the refugee ship. The Exodus' captain, Bernard Marks of Cincinnati, refused to take aboard a landing party and headed his ship out to sea again. The refugees-half of them women & children-screamed their defiance. About the funnel they draped a banner: "England, this is your enemy...
Bouncing in & out of the mudholes and dodging the landing planes, a sleek car carried a plump, moonfaced man who was trying to watch everything at once. Fred L. Wehran, Teterboro's owner, was fighting to make Teterboro the biggest air freight field in the U.S. (With 1,000 plane movements a day it was already the busiest privately owned airport...
Surely the world did. And without a doubt, the triumphal tour of Argentina's beryllium-bright First Lady to the musty corners of the Old World had its miraculous aspects. For sleek, 28-year-old Doña María Eva Duarte de Perón was no ordinary tourist. There was scarcely a capital where her iridescent progress had not been reported inch by inch, scarcely a newspaper from the Times of London to New York's Daily Worker which did not wonder out loud over the significance of the trip...
Last week, in an expensive flowered dress and white picture hat, her burnished, bleached gold hair in sleek rolls over her ivory nape (Italians compared her to Lana Turner), Eva Perón bared her soul to Italy's League of Women Voters. "I am a woman of the people," she said. "All my efforts, all my longings and all my concerns are directed to support women's just aspirations." Eva and the women of Italy sighed deeply. Then, smiling graciously, Argentina's First Lady accepted their gift: a 1554 copy of the Divine Comedy-by Dante...