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Biggest news of the week to Rio de Janeiro editors was neither politics, crime nor disaster, but the arrival in the U. S. of Miss Olga Bergamini De Sa, "Miss Brazil," for an international beauty contest to be held June 8-12 in Galveston, Tex. Shouldering other matter from Rio's front pages were rapt descriptions of how Manhattan welcomed shapely Olga. Rio editors dissertated on the significance of the occasion...
Whether the Brazilian editors knew it or not, Miss Brazil was but one of many Manhattan arrivals from far lands for the Galveston contest. Her presence, like theirs, received nothing more than routine mention, even in the tabloid press where stories and pictures of female pulchritude are so standardized that it is scarcely necessary to change the names from day to day. Characteristic was an item in Variety, theatre weekly, which published an article on the hotel accommodations and diet of the Galveston contestants, entitled FOREIGN BEAUTS CRAVE HOT MEAT...
...Hospitals in the Atlantic Coast cities from Boston south always have a few cases. They appear in the Piedmont section of the Carolinas. Alabama, Georgia and Florida have quite the largest number sick with typhus. But Mississippi or Louisiana have had none reported to health officers. Tampa, Pensacola, Mobile, Galveston and Houston (among Gulf cities) have had their mild affliction, and the lower Rio Grande Valley from Laredo to Mercedes. On the Pacific Coast only Los Angeles has reported a considerable number of cases; the interior of the U. S. has practically none...
...approached through the Ross Sea, the deep bite into the Asiatic side of Antarctica. Explorer Wilkins is trying from the American side. His distance, from Deception Island, to the Pole is approximately 1,900 miles (air way). That is about the same as the distance ships must go between Galveston and Manhattan, Baltimore and the Barbados...
...Dallas-Galveston...