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EPITAPH OF A SMALL WINNER (223 pp.) -Machado de Assis-Noonday ($3.50).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skeptic from Brazil | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

Returning from Paris recently, a Paulista friend brought Baby's bride-to-be a Cartier cigarette lighter adorned with a sapphire as big as a robin's egg. The friend was Sáo Paulo's fabulous press lord, Assis Chateaubriand, 60, who shares Baby's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: City of Enterprise | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

One sweltering day last week Publisher Franciscode Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Mello ushered the President of the Republic and other wilted dignitaries into a cable car for the dizzy ride to the top of Sugar Loaf Mountain. The occasion: formal inauguration of Rio's first television station. High above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Empire-Building Educator | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

Columbia University last week gave a Maria Moors Cabot Gold Medal for hemisphere service to Brazil's most potent publisher, small, dynamic, tack-sharp Dr. Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Passionate Publisher | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

The little Army mail plane squealed to a stop on Rio's airport. Out stepped a half-naked Indian. He was Chief Inai Cachirere of Matto Grosso's Javaes Indians. In broken Portuguese he demanded an audience with General Candido Rondon, 80, begetter of Brazil's enlightened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Help from Old Father | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

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