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Rich, young Sportsman Vicente Mamano Neto and two friends decided to cash in on experience gained in wartime anti-U-boat patrols, started a service on the lucrative Rio-São Paulo run. The up & coming Santos-Dumont company wasted no time, flew passengers the day they got their first plane, bucket seats...
Some Jews tried to escape by ceasing to be Jews altogether-daily, France's Journal Officiel carried columns of announcements that Levys and Cohens had changed their names to Dumont and Beautemps. But the bulk of Europe's younger Jews sought a more complete escape. After centuries of striving toward a secure place in European society, they were ready...
...piece of sculpture holding a preserved human heart was a new feature of Rio de Janeiro last week. The heart thus honored was that of Brazil's pioneer aviator, Alberto Santos-Dumont, who at Bagatelle, France in 1906 was the first man to fly a heavier-than-air machine in public demonstration (two years before the Wright brothers).*The memorial, in Rio de Janeiro's Aeronautic Museum, was a 10-inch, gold-plated sphere, supported by a winged, kneeling figure in wood. Suspended within the sphere was a crystal ball containing preserving fluid in which floated the cold...
Small, swarthy, daring Santos-Dumont committed suicide in Sao Paulo in 1932, at the age of 59. At the time revolution raged in Brazil. Santos-Dumont's body was embalmed by one Dr. Walther Haber-feld, who removed the heart. When political order was restored, the aviator was buried in Rio. Dr. Haberfeld offered the heart to the flyer's family, but they would have none of it. The story was told to Dr. Paulo da-Rocha Gomide, advertising manager of Panair do Brasil (Pan American Airways' Brazilian subsidiary). Quick to see the chance for a graceful...
...Mostly icewater was Seven Days Ashore (RKO-Radio), which detailed the embarrassing simultaneous involvements of a merchant mariner (Gordon Oliver) with three girls. It was spiked by the presence of swart Comic Alan Carney, and there was a fine moment when haughty Margaret Dumont shattered a cocktail glass with a sour note in her rendition of Over the Waves. But the film is best summed up in one critic's quip: "Seven days can be a long time...