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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Argentina's 100% Peronista Senate met last week to consider a list of high army officers recommended for promotion, it noted a glaring omission: the name of Brigadier General Juan D. Peron. Summoned to explain the slight, Army Minister Franklin Lucero reported that the President had brilliantly fulfilled the requirements for promotion to major general, but had expressly ordered his name excluded from the list. "However," cried Lucero, "unless Congress remedies this situation, the President will find himself in an inferior status to his own fellows, purely because of his scruples...
Nothing daunted, the Senators went into secret session and confirmed the original list, adding Brigadier General Peron's name at its head. That left the President in a pretty pickle. How could he be so immodest as to make himself a major general? How, on the other hand, could he be so selfish as to return the list unapproved, thus holding up the promotions of 60 worthy officers? At week's end he found a neat solution: President Peron scratched out General Peron's name, then signed...
...offers from Hollywood and blueprints for a Blondes comic strip and a Lorelei doll modeled on Carol's lines. Even the glacial captains of café society's most chichi saloons, "21" and the Stork, went out of their way to bow effusively and greet her by name. "Everything," said Carol in her own peculiar idiom, "has leveled off just wonderfully...
Deep & Woolly. Although his parents were Russian immigrants, Montreal-born George London (real name Burnson) knew no Russian, never needed any until the Vienna Opera assigned him his biggest role. Last month, after studying hard, he sang a fine Boris Godunov-in the first full-dress performance ever sung in Russian by an American. It was his biggest hit yet. Even Vienna's senior critic, Heinrich Kralik, had to concede: "He is not yet Chaliapin, but he's very remarkable...
Born. To Rita Hayworth (nee Can-sino), 31, cinemactress, and Prince Aly Khan, 38: a daughter (her second child, his third); in Lausanne, Switzerland. Name: Yasmin (Jasmine). Weight: 5 Ibs. 8 oz. (see CINEMA...