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...famed crusading Editor Carlos Lacerda (TIME Aug. 16 et seq.). The three gunmen who ambushed him only managed to shoot Lacerda in the foot; but they killed an air force major who accompanied him. In blazing editorials Lacerda charged that members of President Vargas' bodyguard had done the job at the order of Vargas' son Luthero. The air force demanded that Vargas must go. Vargas refused. But last week the army, final arbiter of Brazilian power, decided that Vargas must be asked to resign to restore public confidence in the government...
President Getulio Vargas was in trouble. Every new clue to the assassination of an Air Force major and the shooting of Editor Carlos Lacerda (TIME, Aug. 16) seemed to point straight to the presidential palace. First the driver of the getaway cab identified a longtime Vargas bodyguard as one of the gunmen, but the man fled the palace before police could pick him up. Then angry air force officers, who staged their own investigation, seized another gunman and leaked a report that he claimed to have done the deed on order of Luthero Vargas, son of the President...
Lacerda insisted, however, that he knew where they came from: "Perhaps as a newspaperman I can't make this accusation, but as the victim I can. I am sure the assassins were members of Getu lio Vargas' personal bodyguard." Replied President Vargas: "I considered Carlos Lacerda my greatest enemy. No man has done so much harm to my government. Now he is my enemy No. 2, because No. 1 is the man who shot...
Churchill's entourage, the maid recalled, consisted of a male secretary and a valet-bodyguard. Since Churchill had a bad cold, the valet instructed the maid to get two dozen handkerchiefs, each a yard square and imported from the British Isles. Wrote the colonel's lady: "Churchill was really a demigod to this fellow . . . This cocky detective said that Mr. Churchill had the mind of the century and there was nothing that he did not know or could not understand...
Consolation Prize. The hot-tempered Latins did not take kindly to the defeat or the roughness. While Referee Ellis was rushing out of the stadium with a bodyguard of 20 Swiss police, a Brazilian player, as the Hungarians later told it, came forward to shake a friendly Hungarian hand. The two were still clasping hands when the Brazilian added a neat left to the chops. The Hungarian fell. The Brazilians insisted that it really began minutes before, when Hungarian Captain Ferenc Puskas hit Brazil's Joao Pinheiro in the face with a pop bottle. However it started, the fight...