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...President Getulio Vargas, confronted with a military demand for his resignation, put a pistol to his heart and committed suicide. With parades and mass meetings banned by the police, the day was quiet. The mourners who gathered around the flower-ringed bronze bust of Vargas in Rio's Florian Square seemed subdued and voiceless...
...Cyril and Florian, Hilarion's sidekicks, Donald Fern and William Nethercut maintained uniform quality throughout demanding roles. In the second act, for instance, they sang five ensembles in a row without losing their freshness. Fern's comic touches also contributed to the general hilarity...
Also slated to appear are Brooks Stevens, consultant for Willys-Overland, and Gorden Florian; designer for General Electric Company...
...just after taking off from Florianópolis, plane 2023, a Brazilian air force C-47 of the Correio Aereo Nacional, radioed back that it had run into heavy overcast, was going on instruments. Aboard were 13 servicemen, nine civilians including four women and two children, a crew of six. Plane 2023 was on a routine flight to Porto Alegre and then to Uruguaiana in the neighboring state of Rio Grande...
...flatly denied the charges. Next day, by "pure coincidence," Washington declared John G. Florian, first secretary of the Hungarian embassy, persona non grata in Washington. Hungary, in retaliation, requested the recall of able U.S. Minister Selden Chapin, whom the Reds had accused of complicity with Mindszenty...