Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strike of Buenos Aires newspaper typographers (TIME, Feb. 21) was no nearer settlement; it threatened, in fact, to spread across the nation. Despite the continued absence of newspapers, most portenos had heard-by word of mouth-all about the army's demand that Juan Peron keep his blonde wife out of public life. Evita was back at her desk in the Secretariat of Labor & Social Welfare. One night she appeared to accept the cheers of a Peronista union members' rally. But for once, she made no speech...
...Manhattan, Lady Rothermere, handsome wife of the London Daily Mail's publisher, gravely discussed a particularly distressing shortage in austere England: "The days of the old English butler are finished," she told Manhattan Gossipist Charles Ventura. The time has passed when young footmen, who normally graduate to butlerhood, "take . . . pride in their profession; they won't take the time to learn it. When this generation dies out, there won't be any new crop...
...Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick set off in his converted B-17 with his wife and a photographer for a fast look around South America...
London critics and theatergoers were much more extravagant. Olivier, running out his last regular season with Old Vic, was turning it into a bang-up triumph. With his cinemactress wife, Vivien Leigh, he is starring in a repertory of three plays-two of them Olivier-produced- which are sold out through March. In any one week, ticket holders can see Sir Laurence and his lady in Richard III (produced by John Burrell, who has also been sacked), The School for Scandal, and a modern-dress Antigone, in which Olivier plays a one-man Greek chorus in a dinner jacket...
...submitting his youthful foreman's photograph in place of his own. Though resentful of being tricked, she goes through with the marriage, only to sin with the foreman. The husband finds out, but reason prevails over melodrama because all three know what they really want-the Italian a wife, the girl a good home, the foreman his freedom...