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DON IDDON IN ENGLAND
THEN Walter Win looks W
chell, an American journalist, enters New York's Stork Club the walters and bartenders whisper: "Here comes the King" Winchell, who writes
scribed na
brilliant
at some spokesman, of Liberaliam. Now,
of the Princes
(and Princesses)
a gossip column which is of Privilege he
printed in more than 700
newspapers and who broad-
casts weekly to 40,000,000 left behind him
people, accepts this homage
regally. If he is not exactly in America the King of this thriving republic he is certainly
theatrical shows close. An or Prince of Privilege, a High chid in print has caused the Priest of the Press.
box-office to bloom. Winchell is one of the most Today, at 54, a lean, alert, powerful men in Ameries. His well-groomed man with pier
Ago
Thomas
the New York | Herald-Tribune
nilicate, which spreads
tho
Lippmann wisdom throughout the earth, describes him as.... "The Great Elucidator. the Man With the Flashlight Mind."
Lippmann has dignity Lipp..
man has authority. There is no doubt that Waller Lippmann knows more about national and
now more problems than
President Truman or most of
the Trumon Cabinet. His social
position is lofty and serene.
Between the two opposite poles of Winchell and Lipp. mann there is a multitude of other columnists, the minor Princes of Privilege. The New York Daily News has Ed Sul- influence la sa vast that not long cing eyes, he is at the pealt livan and Danton Walker on
E.
influence the Broadway beat. Neither Dewey, and pinnacle of his Governor of New York Blate, Whether this is a good or 2 is in the same class as had to revise hastily a mani- bad thing for the United States York Daily Aftrror's WinchelL
and the Western wor
world is £ festo drafted
possible and for
They lack his national emergency when Win matter of hot and coxistant de his gift for coining slang. his bate. Not only the power of
in chell called it "a dictator Bill."
Immenso drive and energy
But they are important A sharp word from Winchell Winchell but also that of his print.
right in to make columnist colleagues is a sub people in their own known
ject of angry controversy in New York and In the other several million
·American chics to which their columns
are syndicated.
Thes
been
а
THE PEASANT GIRL
WHOSE VOICE CHANGED HISTORY
L
another IKE many
poor girl from the Pampas, Eva Peron de- (nee Duarte) cided she would become an actress.
And like would-be ac- over, tresses the world she found that the big city of Buenos Aires was not waiting to welcome her with bouquets and contracts and neon-signed stardom.
Second instalment of a three-day serial telling the fascinating life story of "The Most Powerful Woman in the World,” Senora Eva Péron, who, with her dictator husband, President Peron, rules the Argentine.
By COLIN FRAME
For some time he was Minister of Labour in the new govern ment.
There are
a
the
1
a
Sam,
for
homes.
There are about a secre of big-name Amerlenn journalists whose following Is colossal and who have come to accept ลาม the privileges
and quisites which go with column-welling as their natural right and just reward.
Now
Ahowmanship.
All subjects
ond
the
of ARL Wlison, per freshert breezes on Broad- way and the specialist on the female form, commendo a huge following on the New York: Post.
New York World. Telegraph has the brilliant
·One-man · paper. The
WHAT
Eva A radio
one-man
Some news-
as many as 30
columns There are
about politics to on: food.
and
fasting. farming, fashion:
even
WHAT is a columnist? He is young Robert Ruark. The cult a reporter and a commentator of the columnist has become with a regular space- at his so intensa that disposal. He has a guaranteed papers employ platform on which to atr his on their sta views and report · his nows. diene: hundreds of poor folk who In America, where the laws of everything from
libel are lax, his freedom to palmistry; columns come to her for help and advice,
report and comment, has some-
liccera.
columns to the love-lon Surrounded by her staff whom times become lice
Winchell, whose column is # columns for Investors; columns she calls my boys" the Falry Godmother personally distributes sort of
newspaper on canasta and columns week has little restraint, But it is on columnists. pses and permits for a
The Hollywood columnist has a night for the aged, at a home
regular Sunday his
in the American Kets
place special really blanket, or for a free medical broadcast which visit. It is all delightfully per- American pulses beating high scene. Two women Leuella PATKOTIS, working for the Hearst concl-and good propaganda, But and chills American spines.
is no dubt that
announcer says: organisation, and Hedda Hopper, there
Waller Peron's warm heart is louched "And now,
Winchell, employed by the New York wield Daily News syndicate by a hard luck story, and her America's most-listened-to
Waited porter.... Two Morse
code terrifying power. Very few Impulsiveness, the
35
or cross challenge Winchell to which States found not long ago, can transmitters,
She is the Parsons. S the On June 4, 1940, they drove be embarrassing.
himself operates, provide
city. und and martinet of the film Sound The British-turned-American routine radiodramatiering. together to the Casa Rosado, the
Is
oll. pink-stone presidential palace in There was
he actor James Maseri once looked ppral in Washington for a chil-effects, and The next few years, when
several stories of 'Buches Aires. The Duarte girl on's charity. The Senora got Firing like a machine-gun, he e defying her, but new sends
shouts: "Good evening, Mr and
and flatley. The her Acwers per gll whom village children had not to hear of li
find she was little more than a how the paths of the
all
studios bow to her, to schoolgirl, were the hardest from the pampas and the rich, bren allowed to play with had And from her Foundation went Mrs North America
There have been stars who "Then come the items, and bitterest of her life. middle-aged colonel first met,
but the likeliest, is also the most become the First Lady of the a gift of 600 sets of cisthing for the ships at sea-let's go
Lond at 27.
dren naked American chil-press."
the marls, the wisecracks, the have dared to be rude to Hedon To them the world owes dramatic.
sudden laughs, the fierce ques- Hepper, but she has lambasted them later In print and they have Rich Uncle
rec:lving Today, after sharing six years can the steely glint that
It took an earthquake to weld
For this radio performance creep into her large, dark together the personalities of Eva other husband's rule, Eva Peron such a gift from one, whom he lions, the jeers, and the jokes. fe for cover eyes, the occasional severity Duarte and Juan Peron, so alike remains a dociling to the masses, regards as a poor relation, did
ceives close to 1,000,000 dollars a meddiesame upstart to the not know whether to be angry and his columns Winchell
or amused.
a year about £325,000. He is THE Washington columnists run the Hollywood writers-close ability to court popularity.
and 3 social
not of her tone and manner and in ambition, In audacity and in
middle classes
a millionaire, but does her ability, shared by few
There was a disastrous carth- anathema to the old ruling class
care over-much about money. In the power slakes, Drew Pear- It is the name, the fame, the sen the snooper and character _women_in an Argentino
the obvious
example. -Go- are closely quake at San Juan in 1044. of the Argentine. where girls
Colonel Peron wanted money to
for the Eva-Peron
power and the glory which assassin, is
His Washington Merry. He called on The simple answer to the M Foundation is subscribed by entrance W.W. chaperoned, to meet a world help the victims.
Duarte, then becoming question "How have the Perona
Not all the columnists are as Round" has more than 20,000,000 of men on equal terms - Eva
Winchell, known as "Senorita Radio,", to remained in power so long?" is big business and by the trade
although renders, although how they ers Walter unions. Several manufacturers and often conquer it.
broadcast an appeal.
that their country is on the cress feel they owe lack of business scores copy him. There is Wal- Rei through it is, bayond me. vendcitas. He has pipelines to to the fact that they do not sub-ter Lippmann, the Elder States- Pearson carries on feuds and
man of American Journaliam. Government effteinis, non-contributers sezibe have found their vans fined by The two Walters have nothing Many Senators and the pollee for speeding or their in common. Gossip and Lipp AY after day she tramped the DAY
ineterics condemned by inspse-hole peeping outrage Calle Corientes-the Broad-
mann, the great ex-Liberal and Friendhip with the influential IT is no longer merely the for
little Ruth Romero, Even SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST way of Buenos Aires-seeking
cattic-raising euntry of the
National auditions and cailing on agents. Minister of Labour-soon to be
Workers distinguished pundit. For several years she had little Vlec-President-heiped Eva with days when Eva was a girl. I crowned
by Senora Peran, was her radio career. She began to is a land of new factories and Quećn
Invited to contribute half her play leading roles on Radio Bel- humming machinery..
€ 500
prize to the Foundation. grano. She played the parls of women famous in history-Lady Quick and big proЛts are She did. Hamilton
For the Fairy Godmother has. Maric Antoinette, being made. And Peron and his Catherine et Russia.
wite, supported by the Labour it in her power to send Cinderella Federation, see to it that the back to the kitchen as well as
off to the ball. workers get their share.
So, within limits, everyone is satisfied.
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She played crowd parts. appeared in one or two films. But more often the slag: deo: was slammed In her face.
So they mel and fell in love, of an industrial revolution. and a partnership which was to
to the bring them power had begun.
heights of
No ne today sees the films in which she appeared. She en- courages the myth that Eva
ND in turn she Duarte rose Aphrodite-like from
helped the waveS of enthusiasm that-
Colonel Peion. She wrote followed the political events of his speeches in the language that
Scene Eva Peron
1943.
would appeal to the man-in-the-stands as the living example of She turned from stage to radio street. She sang his praises over what the poor worker may the about the beginning of the war, the air. She staged his public day hope to be. Three inches of diamonds cascade from her cars and there the had a snowball appearances,
but her golden hair is general- ly plailed and raided in busi- ness-like fashion.
success,
month.
car
in a
way
him.
the
ZONEY
Other
koy-
He has dignity WALTER LIPPMANN tackles the globe as his personal problem. He delivers judgment two or three times a week on
WALT
world issues. Once lo was de-
Frightened
men are frightened of him m town over him. His carnings are arcusd £40,000 £50,000 a year. Probably the most victorious columnist in the United Sistes is Westbrook Pegler, who spits
and who is master
น. invective and välification. Pegler's attacks upon the late Presiden! Resevell, Mrs Rocsevelt and the Roosevelt sons have been, and arc, in atrocious taste.;
venom
PARIS NEWSLETTER from SAM WHITE
THE
EISENHOWER DODGES BIG QUESTION
fcel it.
ct
Sunday morning round of golf at
An officer who
the nearby St Cloud. golf links a close friend said: of General Eisenhower, "SHAPE is a one-man show.
Eirenhower national: 's would be upper- most and SHAPE would be an International bear garden,
"As for Elsenhower's
I should
Fight
judge
polities:
him to be just
of centre, Will he sland
for the Presidency? If I had, to,
courted Together they Her warmly passionate voice, popularity of the mass25. vibrant end emotional, cap
How well they had worked
She wears a shimmering Parts out- tured the
gown-but her hands are
if to of strength In 1945, stretched to the mob as that her limited acting ability was made spparent in a poll!!-
eal trial
She could never hope to capture the Alarmed by the social unrest clutch them to her heart.
which they claimed Colonel Is
deand Beveridge:] Hyde Park
PARIS. manner so gravely earnest that, hazard an answer I would say: Corner
the words of one recent Yes, if the demand is, strong and
nearly unanimous," "You almost visit She began at £12 a month Peron had stirred up, big bus!
nest put pressure on President Dior and he, won't he, will in
WILL In 1944 she touched £2,000 a Farrell's government to dismiss and also the Fairy Godmother. he, won't he stand for would be sacrilege to light a MAHARANEE'S MEMOIRS THE MAHARANEE OF Aristocratie matrons accustomed the Presidency of the United cigar." to running the charity organisa-
His starklard reply to pollllcat KAPURTHALA has rented Meanwhile Important political Colonel Peron resigned and tiens in Buenos Aires snubbed States? That is the ques
"Gentleman, that a five-rcom Paris flat and has dozens of probings is events were taking place. By
that arrested and sent to gaol.
down to write, Ber her when she went to the pri tion
The Maharance, now 1943 President Costillo's govern- ment, supported by the rich mediacy Ever want oured sidential palace in 1040. Typical American political pilgrims question has nothing to do with settled
64, was born Anita Delgado, in you can show moment: If landowners, bad become hateful flon. Speeches from her poured
ners, she quashed their crganisa-
come that it to many people because of is over the air. She called on the by, and with ruthless thorough are putting to General the job I have on hand at the memoirs.
It has any connection with Spain. She married the Maha- of her Elsenhower as they workers the Peronista parition and insituted one pro-Axis foreign policy and its they had built
here to visit him at his my present task I would be glad rajah at the age of 15. even ordered ogether. She
to answer
MEAT SHORTAGE SHAPE HQ on the outskirts to this map of Wertem Ger- MBA friends to bring
answer you. Now, to return corruption.
strike own.
MEAT
HUNGRY Britons:: The
Workers cbeyed. The
of Paris Thero
many. The rebuke la zo gravely police sided with them.
administered that the question is them back parcels of cooked wero tremendous demonstrations
as
was
Jager,
controls, hospital
intentions:
me
Eisenhower Is this office luck. Because at a thortage of
THE Army-detsimined to of loyalty to Peron. Blood was NOW the Eva Peron Founds Group after group of Senatin Instantly dropped meat from Franco are out of
the Argentino's and Congressmen arrives Tchange 1. At a cost of ntiy shed. And Peron, thanks largely
Parls. Each group is confident lives what has become known town actress he had bez Beveridge scheme. Through that by shrewd and careful every morning between seven meat in Paris, French authorities
The Colonel's Rebellion" friended, walked freely out
· - -,° moni, in a ing spola and children's Mil-questioning it will obtain at least and 1.30; lunches, dally. In his are now seizing all Joints, found brought 11,000 armet men to the thin a months,
tow
homes for working girls, a hint of Eisenhower's political private dining room with up to a in trans Channel travellers
Each group comes dozen fellow-officers, leaves at luggage, peka KS DE seat of government and installed general, election, Colonel Peron,
BUS FULM star Ceas Tierney, on Central Ramirez as president. nominated by the Labour Party, parks and fist-aid stations, out from the Interview with its 5.30 with a brief-case; full of THE QUIET LIFE
One of the 12aders of the re- had consolidated his hold on the A Christmas traditional gifts collective head reeling from in-home-work
formation about European de to was elected President with a
parcels containing toys go marksfeld Filters are made in a wide range of atxes bellion was Colonel Juan Do- majority, of the Argentines:` ́Host breed' and cider, unđ-1,000,000 frence problems---but not a scrap 2 At home in. bis 14-room two- - arrival In' Paris!! "No nightëp Wiser about whether Elsenhower arey villa near Parli hejolther lite for me here! Just a quic Dictator'a power v
* Working class homes bearing
on his putting green before in bed, every night," by label from Eva Parun, will (ar will fot), stand for the ads as predilecs golfing shots family life with my daughter and dianer After dinner he idle Bome, night, samocky samo personal touch is there Prealjenty next year.
Elsenhower resiste all attempts phones noighbouring color star dancing nt: Carroll to sun hli austere offes, into oneers to call and discuss spoelic party which invluded one of those smoke-filled rooma problema with him. He has of Ceramab; nim direct
Salivak and manne United Blates position?, ha, Poolak
Both pres mingo Peron. Fure and regally plygas are available. Send for, detalia He was 40-tall, darks and handsome, a gay fellow with
`of' alzas (and 'prise).
BERKEFELD (BRITISH) FILTERS courage and ambition, a widower,
SARE DERKEFELD FILTERS" LTD. (Dept, 1943, 9a good woldier and a bon vivere
Berdiale House, KiRESWAY, London, WCM, Kogiant was rich His father ran B that times politicalrade & Chris Umer ser Dades on naing she Writian" Kidsīzuki: candle for all a large raneb: His bad spent?
wlair and pariner, had, be a hoodlit desk in
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