People: People, Nov. 7, 1949

Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, accustomed over recent months to editorial broadsides in the Soviet press, became the target of a gossip item in Moscow's Literary Gazette. The paper reported that Tito was in the clutches of an alluring "American spy"—sleek, slinky-eyed Zinka Milanov, 43, onetime Metropolitan Opera star and since 1947 the wife of Ljubomir Ilic, one of Tito's generals. Pooh-poohed Zinka from Belgrade: "It's just silly."

Lewis Douglas, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, took a Manchester audience into his confidence on the subject of his daughter, Sharman, 21, who shares...

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