Word: jornal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first fireballed into Rio in 1917 as a brash young lawyer from the north with a driving urge to write for the newspapers. After a spectacular career as reporter and editor, he borrowed 3,000,000 cruzeiros in 1925 and bought his first newspaper, Rio's O Jornal. Generally regarded as Brazil's top reporter, he competed with his own staffers for scoops. He tangled with almost everybody. "I'm like a loaf of yeast bread," he liked to say. "The more they knead me the higher I rise." He always carried a revolver and sometimes even...