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Last week death came to the best loved man in Brazil: Pedro Ernesto Baptista. Years ago, when Getulio Vargas began his revolution, Pedro Ernesto, a surgeon, used his own hospital's ambulance to run machine guns to the Vargas contingents massing at Minas Geraes. When Vargas became President, Pedro Ernesto became prefect of the Federal District (Brazilian equivalent of mayor of the District of Columbia). This was a job which gave Pedro Ernesto the chance he had wanted: he labored to improve conditions in Rio's slums; he built schools, free clinics, city hospitals...
...people's man, Pedro Ernesto watched fearfully while the fascist Integralist Party waxed strong and bold under the nose of Vargas. Joining the socialistic Allianca Nacional Libertadora, Pedro Ernesto got wind of an army revolt it was planning and hurried over to Getulio to warn him. No traitor to the Allianca, Pedro Ernesto advised Vargas to nip its revolt in the bud by combining forces in a popular front. But fiercely anti-Communist Vargas smashed the revolt. Army bigwigs clamored for Pedro Ernesto's head...
This posed a problem for Getulio, who had a very soft spot in his heart for his oldtime friend. Besides, Pedro Ernesto had saved the leg of Senhora Vargas when it was crushed in an automobile accident and other surgeons wanted to amputate. Vargas' Minister of War ordered Pedro Ernesto imprisoned, but he was taken to the Military Police Hospital instead of the jail. When it was announced that visitors might call on Pedro Ernesto, a long line of friends queued up at the hospital's door; next to a bemedaled general stood an old Negro woman from...
...modern hero of Brazil's jangadeiros, half-starved "sharecropping" fishermen, last autumn when he and three mates sailed their flimsy jangada (sailing raft) Sao Pedro on a 61-day, 1,650-mile trip to Rio de Janeiro to tell President Vargas the fishermen's troubles. From Getulio Vargas they won full union rights-and pensions. Their story (TIME, Dec. 8) so kindled Cinema Director Orson Welles (Citizen Kane)that he flew Jacare and his mates to Rio again, to enact their feat for his camera...
...children of Brazil's Petropolis, in celebration of President Getulio Vargas' 59th birthday: a cake, ten feet high, 26 feet in diameter, supporting a sugar-and-dough bust of the President. Among the ingredients: 1.200 dozen eggs, 25 bags of flour, 25 bags of sugar, 12 Ib. of butter, 52 quarts of milk, eleven quarts of currant syrup, five bottles of rum, 7 Ib. of sugar plums...