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...Siamese prince, a Brazilian radio commentator, "April in Paris," a ship-to-shore crew broadcast, and 2,900 athletes, dignitaries, and freshmen--this potpourri can be thrown together and considered as one because of the unofficial hosts of Harvard College, the Crimson Key Society...
...handsome Euclides Guterres' home on the south Brazilian cattle ranges, the skies were not cloudy all day-till the flying machines came. Then, a few years ago, some smart fellows bought themselves a lot of little airplanes and opened a flying club just a hoot and a holler from the ranch where Cowboy Euclides worked. After that, the crazy things flew all over the place, diving at his cattle, scaring his pony, and impressing the girls so much that for the first time in Euclides' courting life, the girls had discouraging words for a mere ground-bound gaucho...
...Estilac finally gone too far? Three days later, the newspaper 0 Jornal reported that President Vargas was planning a cabinet shakeup, and might replace his War Minister early in the new year with Marshal Mascarenhas de Moraes, commander of Brazilian expeditionary forces in Italy during World...
Canadians may now spend their money anywhere-to travel, to buy & sell, to invest in stocks and private businesses in the U.S., in French champagne, Brazilian coffee or Russian caviar. Canadian businessmen can trade their goods in any country and convert foreign currency at home. Foreign investors, whose prewar investments have been frozen in Canada, can now get them...
...many years later an itinerant Brazilian claimed to have traveled the length of the river. In 1931, an American, Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey, also made the trip (TIME, Aug. 10, 1931), reported what he declared were the exact coordinates of the Orinoco's source: Lat. 2° 25 min. 30 sec. North, Long. 63° 45 min. 31 sec. West. Then, in 1943, a Brazilian boundary-setting expedition claimed that it had found the source 30 miles to the west. U.S. Army flyers from British Guiana helped to confirm the location of the river's origin...