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Banging the Pad. During World War II, Gleason landed in Lisbon with the Office of War Information, used to delight in driving German generals from nightclubs by playing fumble-thumbed jazz on a piano backed up by a Vichy French clarinetist, an English bass man, and a West African drummer. He caught on with the Chronicle in 1950, now lives with his wife and three children in a red-shingled house beset by his 3,000-album record collection, which grows and coils from room to room. As he listens and listens, he hammers out the beat...
Autemotion. In Lisbon, visitors at the Portuguese Industrial Fair could play ticktacktoe with an electronic machine that cackles mockingly when it wins and snarls menacingly when it loses...
...slice of the Belgian Congo (TIME, Nov. 25) which engineers fondly describe as "the Ruhr of the 21st century." Tysen will also shop around for three kings interested in plush homes, has hunting licenses for land for a British firm that wants to build 700-room luxury hotels in Lisbon and Vienna, a U.S. hotel chain interested in London...
Children in the Museum. During the last 13 years of his life. Gulbenkian lived in a drearily furnished suite of Lisbon's posh little Hotel Aviz, voluntarily separated from his wife and family and the paintings which he sentimentally called "my children." When an old friend pressed him to enliven the bare walls of his rooms with at least one painting, Gulbenkian replied in a rare moment of embitterment, "Do you honestly suppose that besides myself there are fifty men in the world who look at my collection other than through a mist of dollars?" Lost in the mist...
...much unrest lies below the surface. Opposition Candidate Humberto Delgado, an air force general who promised to fire Salazar if elected, ran into familiar difficulties: 1) he was not allowed to speak in the city of Braga because he might "interfere" with an annual religious pilgrimage; 2) his Lisbon headquarters had the letter S (for Salazar) smeared on its walls, was repeatedly raided by the police. Strongman Salazar began to sound a bit tired of Delgado's campaign and assured his followers that "the calmness essential to collective life will now have to be restored. We will...