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...Lisbon correspondent, Piero Saporiti, his wife, their belongings, and a lame dog, turned up in Paris a few weeks ago somewhat the worse for wear. They had been kicked out of Portugal because Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar disapproved of TIME's July 22nd cover story about himself and his regime...
Josephine Baker, golden brown toast of prewar Paris music halls, was in a Neuilly hospital, making slow recovery from an intestinal ailment. She had a new piece of finery: a Medal of Resistance, with Rosette, given her for aiding French Intelligence in Lisbon and North Africa early...
...landing at Shannon Airport, Ireland, was routine. As the Pan American Airways Clipper (bound for Lisbon from New York) taxied towards the airport terminal, the pilot snapped an order: "Flaps up." The copilot, who had flown many hours in DC-4s, instinctively reached down with his left hand, yanked the lever next to his seat...
...second day of the hearing at Reading, Pa. a witness walked in with a handful of scored and pitted electrical fittings from the wreckage of the T.W.A. Constellation Star of Lisbon (TIME, July 22). By the time he had finished his testimony, the Civil Aeronautics Board had the answer to the most publicized of recent airplane crashes. The cause: a smoking short circuit in the forward baggage compartment of the sleek Connie, where wires from the generators are piped into the pressurized fuselage...
...recently said: "The world, weary and disillusioned, is sweeping half-measures from the political field . . . forming up clearly on the Right or on the Left." Salazar's own policies have encouraged both the disillusionment and the drift to the Right and Left extremes. Last month in Lisbon an old streetcar motorman, who earns $30 a month after 25 years' service, summed it up: "I ask only for the minimum to enable me and my family to live. Salazar gives us only the right to die. . . . Yes, I belong to the Anti-Fascist Unity Council...