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...early afternoon, Correspondent J. D. Phillips of the New York Times stepped out on the balcony of his house on Avenida de los Presidentes in the Vedado residential section to enjoy the sunshine. A gang of Negroes, some with rifles, some with pistols was sitting on the top of a high bank on the opposite side. A car swung out of the gates of Principe Fortress, turned into the street and stopped. Two boys were pushed...
...metropolitan Cathedral, hung with black velvet and flickering with candlelight, the body lay in a huge sarcophagus. In the murk of the nave, 2,000 Brazilians per hour filed slowly past day & night. The day of the funeral was a national holiday. Laurel leaves were strewn solidly on the Avenida Rio Branca for 720 ft., the distance of the hero's first flight. Artillery sounded the body into the grave, a five-minute Brazil-wide silence followed. Sea & land planes flew over in squadrons. At the grave was a great monument topped by a winged figure built...
Hurricanes, defending champions, smothered Hurlingham in a semifinal, 18 to 5. The day Santa Paula played the Hurricanes for the championship, thousands of excited Latin-Americans crowded the Avenida de Mayo in Buenos Aires to hear cabled accounts of the game relayed to them by an announcer...
...crowd in the Avenida de Mayo, pleased at least that Santa Paula rather than Hurlingham was playing for the championship, cheered more loudly than the crowd in the pale blue stands at Meadowbrook through the first period. Santa Paula, riding wildly to get a lead that might serve them when Andrada's swollen hand hurt him too much to be useful, made three goals before the Hurricanes got one. They stayed ahead till Guest tied the score at 4-all. It was tied again at 5-all, 6-all, 7-all. Santa Paula was a goal ahead when...
...junction of Rio de Janeiro's Avenida Rio Branco and Avenida Beira-Mar stands an obelisk, pride of the city. Last week 16 slouch-hatted gauchos (cowboys) with ponchos over their shoulders and red handkerchiefs knotted about their necks rode up to it and solemnly hitched their ponies to its base while camera shutters clicked and black-coated pedestrians cheered themselves hoarse. This was the final act of Brazil's revolution. The gauchos of Rio Grande do Sul (the southern state in which the revolt started), had vowed: "We'll hitch our ponies to the obelisk...