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Nevada's dapper young Berkeley L. Bunker, presiding, rapped in vain for order. For three hours the debate raged uncontrolled...
...years the Government of President Getulio Dornellas Vargas has kept a light hand on all news dispatches leaving Brazil, as well as on the domestic press, movies and radio. Last fortnight the grip was released. Dapper, curly-haired Lourival Fontes, director of the D.I.P. (Department of Press and Propaganda) announced to foreign correspondents in Rio de Janeiro that, from now on, no outgoing news would be censored...
...hearing. An expert on supply, he would see to first things first: secure lines before tactical missions. Fresh from a tour which took in Egypt, Britain, India and Russia, he probably knew more about problems of Allied cooperation than any other U.S. officer. Grey-haired, dapper, popular, he has not let desk duties ground him, and he is still a crackerjack fighter pilot...
...Degas, "that a woman could draw as well as that." Inviting her to join the ranks of the Impressionists who were just then making history by dragging art from its musty museums and studios into the sunlight, Painter Degas gave her some pointers on drawing. The platonic friendship between dapper, ironic Boulevardier Degas and his prim Pennsylvania ward ripened and endured until Degas' death in 1917, became the closest relationship Mary Cassatt ever had with a member of the opposite...
Before he was fairly settled in Santiago's grey Casa Moneda, Chile's new Acting President Geronimo Mendez had ?n important visitor. Out of a borrowed Lufthansa plane at Santiago airport one day last week stepped Brazil's smart, dapper Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha, all primed to talk commercial treaties. He had left Rio expecting to confer with President Pedro Aguirre Cerda, had learned of Don Tinto's temporary retirement (TIME, Nov. 17) while en route...