Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Francis Adams Truslow, 45, former head of the New York Curb Exchange, recently appointed by President Truman to the U.S.-Brazil Joint Commission for Economic Development, with the rank of minister; of a heart attack; at sea, en route to Rio de Janeiro...
...SAUNDERS Rio de Janeiro...
...Carmel Myers Show (Tues. 7:15 p.m., ABC-TV) manages a new twist to the interview show, now a TV staple. Veteran Cinemactress Carmel Myers, 50, enlivens her 15-minute program with clips from such ancient movies as Girl' From Rio, in which she co-starred in 1927 with a promising young actor named Walter Pidgeon. She also sings in a small but pleasant voice, strums a ukulele, trades anecdotes with such guests as Composer Richard Rodgers...
Juan Perón extended his war against the free press to the big U.S. news agencies serving Argentine newspapers. Last week Associated Press came under heavy fire for picking up a Rio report that Perón had arrested his atomic energy expert, Dr. Ronald Richter (TIME, May 28). One Perónista newspaper raged at A.P. as "anti-Argentine." Another, in a curious echo of Pravda's familiar vocabulary, blasted the agency as a practitioner of "gangster journalism" and an agent in a "persistent and infamous plan to attack the Argentine republic...
Died. Dr. Napoleao Laureano, 36, Brazilian surgeon and cancer expert, who spent his dying days in dramatizing his country's need for better clinics to detect and fight cancer (TIME, March 19); of cancer of the lymphatic tissues; in Rio de Janeiro...