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Married. Dom Duarte Nuño, 35, Austrian-born-and-educated pretender to the throne of Portugal; and Princess Maria Francisca of Orléans and Braganza, 28, his remote cousin, great granddaughter of the late Dom Pedro II, second and last Emperor of Brazil; in Petropolis, Brazilian summer resort founded by her family. Dom Duarte has never lived in Portugal. His grandfather was Dom Miguel I, deposed as King of Portugal in 1834. Among the bride's wedding presents: a $15,000 aquamarine and platinum necklace...
...illegitimate and has the highest percentage of illiteracy and tuberculosis in Argentina. But it was not these evils which last week led President Ramón S. Castillo to use the handy Latin American device of a government interventor to replace popularly elected Governor Pedro Numa Soto. President Castillo said administrative scandals forced him to interfere. Actually he usurped control of the political stronghold of pro-Ally General Augustin Justo, who may be his opponent in 1943's Presidential elections...
...people's man, Pedro Ernesto watched fearfully while the fascist Integralist Party waxed strong and bold under the nose of Vargas. Joining the socialistic Allianca Nacional Libertadora, Pedro Ernesto got wind of an army revolt it was planning and hurried over to Getulio to warn him. No traitor to the Allianca, Pedro Ernesto advised Vargas to nip its revolt in the bud by combining forces in a popular front. But fiercely anti-Communist Vargas smashed the revolt. Army bigwigs clamored for Pedro Ernesto's head...
This posed a problem for Getulio, who had a very soft spot in his heart for his oldtime friend. Besides, Pedro Ernesto had saved the leg of Senhora Vargas when it was crushed in an automobile accident and other surgeons wanted to amputate. Vargas' Minister of War ordered Pedro Ernesto imprisoned, but he was taken to the Military Police Hospital instead of the jail. When it was announced that visitors might call on Pedro Ernesto, a long line of friends queued up at the hospital's door; next to a bemedaled general stood an old Negro woman from...
Five years ago Pedro Ernesto was set free. Exiled temporarily to Minas Geraes, he returned, when things quieted down, to Rio and his own hospital and patients. He shunned politics. On his birthday last year the Candelaria church, Rio's biggest and smartest, sang masses for Pedro Ernesto at each of its nine altars. Today, in the vestibule of the Municipal Hall, stands a bust of him which slum mothers point out to their children, telling them that all they paid for Pedro Ernesto's services were small gifts of bananas...