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