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...silvery plane taxied to a stop on Rio's Santos Dumont Airfield, 5,000 waiting citizens rushed toward it. A roar went up as the door opened to frame the bulky figure of São Paulo's Governor Adhemar de Barros. Attendants struggled to push the loading ramp through the crowd. When they got it within two feet of the plane, Adhemar jumped. The crowd applauded wildly. Then Adhemar fought his way, grinning, down the steps to set foot in Rio for the first time in two years. He had come to open his formal campaign...
Died. Alexander Harvey, 80, Brussels-born onetime reporter (the old New York Evening Telegram), an editor on the New York Herald, and the Literary Digest, critic (William Dean Howells) and essayist; in Dumont...
...industry-wide jitters stemmed from the fear that the public, expecting color TV in the near future, might stop buying black & white sets. According to Du-Mont's Dr. Allen B. DuMont, the present color converters are expensive, and so complicated that, if color telecasts began tomorrow, every set now in use would have to go to a factory for proper installation. All in all, the industry wished the subject had not come...
Star Theater (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC-TV & DuMont). Milton Berle's final telecast of the season...
...into a car with a colonel who was his runner-up for the title of the army's most taciturn officer, and asked the chauffeur to keep track of the conversation. Not a word passed between them on the drive from Rio's Catete Palace to Santos Dumont airport. As the car drove through the airport gate, the colonel muttered: "Chegamos" (We have arrived). Grunted Dutra...