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This week Ike was scheduled to climb back into his plane, head for NATO Capital Lisbon. After that, Rome, Luxembourg, Heidelberg, back to Paris, then Reykjavik and Ottawa. On Jan. 29 he would return to Washington, report on the prospects of Western defense...
...Brazilians date their independence from Sept. 7, 1822, when Braganza Prince Dom Pedro tore up Portuguese crown orders to return to Lisbon, proclaimed Brazil a free and independent nation...
...paintings from the collection of Oil Tycoon Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian. Publicity-hating Gulbenkian, one of the richest men in the world (TIME, June 16, 1947 et seq.), was not on hand for the festivities; at 84, the Near East genius spends most of his time in his adopted Lisbon...
That was after the Lisbon Clipper carrying Jane to a U.S.O. tour of England and North Africa crashed in Portugal's Tagus River (TIME, March 8, 1943). Her right leg was nearly severed, her left leg broken and one arm badly injured. But game Jane Froman refused to let anybody ring down the curtain on her career. She had started on that career as a student at the University of Missouri, when, as a journalism major, she wangled the lead in a college musical. She continued to develop her home-trained voice at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, helped...
Since the Lisbon crash, Jane has spent most of her time in & out of hospitals, undergone 25 operations. But she never let her big, throaty voice get out of form. She went back on the European U.S.O. circuit for a 30,000-mile trek while still in a cast, plugged away at sporadic nightclub and radio dates, first from a wheelchair, then on crutches...