Word: jo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...onlooker, teenaged, tuberculous João do Nascimento, was unappreciative. Like thousands of others, he had tried for two years to get into one of the Government sanatoriums (3,324 beds for 75,000 tuberculous Portuguese), growing steadily weaker while indifferent functionaries of the Estado Novo shuffled his papers. Rashly João complained to a friend: "There is always plenty of money to finance processions, but to take care of the sick such as myself there never seems to be a penny...
...P.V.D.E. men overheard and hustled the sickly lad to court. The trial was speedy, the sentence light by Lisbon standards: 25 days in jail and 100 escudos ($4) fine. But João's mother sobbed and bystanders growled as the boy collapsed on seeing Portuguese justice open a prison cell instead of a hospital ward. The Portuguese press rarely murmurs against the order Salazar has maintained for 14 years, but last week the Lisbon Diario de Lisboa reported João's case with obvious sympathy...
...other ambassadors presented themselves last week to Argentina's no-longer-isolated Government. Britain's Sir Reginald Leeper docked in the fog to report "great interest [in Britain] in the Argentine market." When Brazil's João Baptista Luzardo arrived at B.A.'s Lacroze railway station, he was met and embraced by Perón himself and cheered by thousands of descamisados (shirtless ones) specially summoned by the Strong Man to make a fraternal greeting to "the representative of Brazil's marmiteiros [dinner-pail carriers]." Luzardo responded by grabbing and kissing Argentine and Brazilian...
...fifth-floor suite in Rio's gleaming Copacabana Palace Hotel, one floor below ex-King Carol of Rumania, Surits looked out on the white sands of Copacabana Beach. Politely he said that it reminded him of Russia's Black Sea beaches. As soon as Brazilian Foreign Minister João Neves da Fontoura had loudly and lengthily denied his undiplomatic blurt to New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Joseph Newman ("Russia is the greatest danger to the world"), Surits presented his credentials at palm-shaded, swan-graced Palácio Itamaraty, the Foreign Office. Pint-sized Surits beamed...
...your picture of Frankie with Jo Davidson [TIME, April 22]. You of course selected the worst picture you could find of him so you could get off your quip: "Sinatra and his big bow tie . . . didn't look half so much like a heart-leaping popular idol as 63-year-old Davidson and his little one." I was not amused...