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...Nilsen, thrown clear of the crash, but mortally injured. Another farmer, passing by in his truck, found T.W.A. Captain Richard Brown, dazed by the side of the road, took him to a hospital. He was the sole survivor. In the blazing, gutted carcass of the Lockheed Constellation "Star of Lisbon," four other TWAirmen died...
Despite the confusion and inconvenience, most laymen heartily approved CAA's action. Reason: the "Star of Lisbon" was the third Constellation to catch fire and crash-land in the last ten months. The first, an Army plane manned by a Pan American crew, went down near Linn, Kans. in September. The second was a commercial Pan American ship (carrying members of London's Old Vic company back to Britain), which dropped an engine and squeaked into Willimantic, Conn, last month...
Success Story. Portuguese, however, looked happy enough last week as Lisbon turned out for the annual People's Fair (to aid Lisbon's numerous orphans). They rented boats on Palhava Park lake. They smeared their swarthy faces with spun sugar candy. They took pleasure in their jados ("songs of fate"), although these ditties are not always gay. Sample...
...Portuguese retainer was trying to encourage a kitchen fire with damp wood when the little family arrived. The children goggled at the medieval stove, whimpered and wept. (Maria had forgotten her pet poodle and a friend in Lisbon had given her a strange setter; Mamma had forgotten her passport, but that had been taken care of, too.) There was no central heating or electricity-Bella Vista hadn't been occupied for 100 years, save for a brief stay in 1942 by Dom Duarte, pretender of the House of Braganza. At nightfall, kerosene lamps cast shadows of the spindly Empire...
...P.V.D.E. men overheard and hustled the sickly lad to court. The trial was speedy, the sentence light by Lisbon standards: 25 days in jail and 100 escudos ($4) fine. But João's mother sobbed and bystanders growled as the boy collapsed on seeing Portuguese justice open a prison cell instead of a hospital ward. The Portuguese press rarely murmurs against the order Salazar has maintained for 14 years, but last week the Lisbon Diario de Lisboa reported João's case with obvious sympathy...