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Miss Cheesecake. Weldy had met Harrison twice before. The first time was two months ago, when Harrison talked vaguely of hiring him for an Amazon expedition but also assiduously pumped him about his ex-wife Pilar Palette and Actor Wayne. Then last week he met Harrison in a Ciudad Trujillo hotel casino, raised such a row about the Confidential story that bouncers escorted...
...Reluctantly, the tabloids did a slow fade-out on the exotic tropical scene, leaving readers to chew on some memorable quotes. Said Actor Wayne: " Weldy is a nice fellow, but I deplore the fact that he is such a poor shot." Said Weldy: "I'm going up the Amazon and get lost." Said Harrison: " I have had enough of the goddamned jungle for the rest of my life." Said Miss Courtney: "I wasn't in love with either of them...
Died. Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, 80, explorer, scientist, physician, millionaire socialite (left $5,000,000 in trust by his first wife, the former Eleanor Elkins Widener) and sometime cannibal fighter, who mapped 500,000 sq. mi. of Amazon and Orinoco River territory; at his summer home in Newport...
...Brazil, the chief rebels were Major Haroldo Coimbra Veloso and Captain José Lameirão, a pair of air force officers. Commandeering a Beechcraft, they flew from Rio to a set of airstrips well up the Amazon, took the strips by pulling rank on the noncoms in command, and signed up some recruits. Biggest prize: Santarem, a town (pop. 15,000) and airport on the river. The rebels kept pursuing planes from landing by strewing logs and oil drums on the strips; at length the government, more embarrassed than harassed, loaded 700 soldiers aboard a river boat...
...Peru, Brigadier General Marcial Merino rebelled with his 10,000-man Jungle Division on the upper Amazon (TIME, Feb. 27), and said, in effect, to the country's other garrison commanders: "I move that we overthrow President Manuel Odria." Strongman Odria hastily shifted several doubtful generals out of high command. By last weekend it was clear to Merino that no one was going to second his motion. In a voice choked with suita ble emotion, he surrendered to the government by long-distance telephone from his headquarters in the river port of Iquitos, then took asylum in the Brazilian...