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...Brazilian cruiser Almirante Barroso nosed past Sugar Loaf into Guanabara Bay last week, jet planes circled in the sky and shore batteries roared a royal 21-gun salute. On the cruiser's fantail, beneath the old imperial colors,* lay two oak coffins. They contained the remains of Princess Isabel of Braganza and her French consort, Gaston Count d'Eu. Brazil was honoring a national heroine, the princess who freed the slaves...
...50th anniversary of the "Golden Law," as the emancipation act became known, President Getulio Vargas decreed that the princess' remains should be brought home. The outbreak of World War II delayed the project, and almost 15 years passed before Vargas was back in office again. When the cruiser Barroso sailed for the British coronation ceremonies, it afforded an opportunity to bring the princess home in state...
...sleek new 12,800-ton Russian cruiser Sverdlov* appeared off the Isle of Wight last week, bound for the coronation naval review. A British pilot went aboard, but Captain Olimpey Rudakov had no need for him. Silent on the bridge, his chest diagonally festooned with medals, Captain Rudakov manipulated a series of levers behind him to convey his orders to the engine room and the helmsman. At the correct spot, the correct time, he dropped anchor. Simultaneously, with a flick of another switch, he set off a 21-gun salute...
...According to British naval estimates," said Radio Moscow, "the anchoring of the Sverdlov should have taken one hour, 20 minutes. The Soviet cruiser anchored in 12 minutes." Asked the London News Chronicle: "Who said the Russians were no seamen...
...raise the needed funds, Chatô has turned the whole pressure of his 28 newspapers, five magazines, 19 radio stations and two TV transmitters on Brazil's other millionaires. Last week Chatô pulled off his flashiest fund-raising stunt: a fiesta on the cruiser Almirante Tamandaré (once the U.S.S. St. Louis) in Rio Harbor. Piped aboard from gigs and barges came Senators, ministers, governors and industrialists, together with their ladies. Chatô greeted them, fed them Beef Stroganoff and champagne punch, and made a speech...