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Rumania's ex-King Carol II, living in exile near Lisbon, cleared up a mystery that has baffled philatelists for 13 years: Where was that rarest European postage stamp, a Swedish 1855 error-variety worth something like $30,000? Carol revealed himself as the owner when he gave his stamp 'to a Manhattan auctioneer with instructions to sell...
...feels stripped of his dignity when caught; a wacky playwright buys a punch bowl and a dozen cups for $1,050 from Cartier without knowing how he is to pay for them; an abandoned boy is befriended by a bighearted bartender; a middle-aged writer gets the fantods in Lisbon. And all the while Saroyan is passing out breathless bromides about Love...
...Lisbon, Lady Bullfighter Conchita Cintron declared that she would soon give up the razzle-dazzle of the ring for the tranquillity of marriage. Her future husband, she said, is Dom Francisco Castelo Branco, a government official in Por tuguese East Africa. She plans to marry him by proxy next September...
Were Macao's days now numbered? Would the Chinese Reds seize it? Back in Lisbon, Premier Salazar said: "It remains to be seen whether reason will be able to avoid violence and whether the path of respect, of rights and of conciliation of interests can be found." More than a month ago, Lisbon sent reinforcements to Governor Oliveira's garrison...
...back as 1936 surgeons were working out a way to treat a psychosis by an operation called prefrontal lobotomy-the last resort for schizophrenics and manic-depressives. Using a technique devised by the University of Lisbon's emeritus professor Dr. Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz, skilled neurosurgeons cut away important nerve connections in the prefrontal brain lobe (a seat of reasoning) and the thalamus in the rear of the brain (a way station for emotional responses). The operation's aim: helping the patient to a better adjustment with his environment...