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Eager to bolster its team for the coming futebl (soccer) season, Rio de Janeiro's Vasco da Gama club, one of coffee-growing Brazil's eight major-league futeból teams, tried last week to buy a famed Uruguayan player named Figliola. To their dismay, the Vasco da Gamas discovered that Figliola had already been signed up by a football club in Genoa, in coffee-hungry Italy. More eager than ever, they cabled Genoa, offered to buy his contract. Prompt was the reply: the Italian Football Federation would permit the Genoese club to release Figliola...
...Neighbor Wyly. The delegation escorted him to a flag-draped automobile, sped him to the hospital to receive the thanks of the recuperating stevedore, then took him back to his ship. There they gave him a gold medal; a twelve-inch gold filigree model of the windjammer Saldanha da Gama, $25 in cash and an offer of a life job long shore...
Married. Jandyra Vargas, younger daughter of Brazil's Dictator-President Getulio Vargas; to Ruy da Costa Gama, 25, apprentice pilot of Pan American Airways' Brazilian subsidiary, Panair do Brasil; in Rio de Janeiro...
...investigation of his terres trial abode is unfolded in the 338 pages of A History of Exploration, by Brigadier General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes, him self a distinguished traveler-soldier. The story lingers admiringly with such illustrious voyageurs as Leif the Viking, Marco Polo, Diaz and Vasco da Gama, Columbus and Magellan, Livingstone and Stanley. Doughty and Lawrence, Peary, Scott and Shackleton, but does not neglect a multitude of colorful, less familiar figures. There is Hsuan-tsang, the studious, well born Buddhist monk who, fortified by a dream, passed beyond the Great Wall in 629 A. D., set out across...
...been released in Lisbon on June 22, 1932 with metal tags on their tails inscribed "R. P. Aquario, Lisbon, Portugal." To the fisherman who sends in one of the tags with data on where and how the tuna was caught, its size and condition, the Aquarium Vasco da Gama in Lisbon will pay a reward, amount unstated. In previous experiments, Portugal's tagged tuna have been caught in the Bay of Biscay and the Mediterranean. But the tuna is a world wanderer. One of this year's 60 might well turn up off Montauk, Beach Haven or Miami...