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...expelled seven months later for his part in a student rebellion against compulsory smallpox vaccination. A government amnesty let him return. Two years after graduation he was a cavalry lieutenant, apparently destined for the usual army career-25 years a captain, then retirement. Then he met & married Dona Carmela Leite de Cintra...
...Dona Carmela, the widow of an army captain who had died in Germany while on a government mission, was a woman whose piety and good works later endeared her to Brazilians as "Dona Santinha"-the little saint. She also burned with ambition for her husband. At her urging, Dutra returned to his books and won an appointment to Brazil's General Staff School, where he hung up a scholastic record unequaled before or since...
...control and knew just what he was doing. He has a sense of contrast and dramatic effect which he has trained his musicians to execute. The mighty invocation, "Jesu Christe," followed by a bursting "Cum Saneto Spiritu" was as impressive as any singing around. Though the memory of the "Dona Nobis Pacem" was destroyed by a recessional hymn, it was, while it lasted, no less than magnificent...
...Dona Luisa Maria Narvaez y Macias, Perez de Guzman el Bueno y Ramirez de Arellano, Marquesa de Cartago, Condesa de Canada Alta, Vizcondesa Aliatar and Duquesa de Valencia, had just spent nine months in the clink. Last week she sat, lithe and beautiful, in the prisoner's dock, her astrakhan coat open wide to reveal the soft drape of a smart beige gown and a length of shapely leg. From time to time as the prosecutor read the indictment, her long, blood-red fingernails fondled a corsage of tea roses at her shoulder as she cast a slow smile...
...Bramuglia was the President's pride, he was no hit with the First Lady. The Foreign Minister last year had opposed her gaudy European tour. More recently, Dona Eva has been angry because Bramuglia had been unable to get the U.N. to consider seriously her Declaration of Rights of Old Age. Worst of all, in sharing the Paris dinner table-and the headlines -with U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky and British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, Bramuglia had reached the top of the ladder. In Argentina there is room for only one person...