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...rated such a natural basketball prospect on Ohio's high-school circuit that he was offered athletic scholarships by some 60 colleges. Now 20, married and the father of a five-months-old son, gangling "Bevo"* Francis chose southern Ohio's obscure little (enrollment: about 125) Rio Grande College because 1) it was willing to overlook the fact that Bevo had not graduated from high school, and 2) he wanted to follow his high-school coach. Newt Oliver, to college...
...Royal Canadian Air Force C-5 transport lifted off Ottawa's snowy Rockcliffe Airport one morning this week, and headed south for Rio de Janeiro. Aboard the plane was C. D. Howe, Canada's go-getting Minister of Trade & Commerce, leading a group of government and business leaders on a five-week good-will tour of Latin America. The mission is the first of its kind Canada has sent to Latin America since 1946. Its announced purpose: "To present a picture of Canada's industrial growth and commercial aspirations so that business and government in the nine...
...finish of the zy-nation Western Hemisphere Labor Union Conference in Rio de Janeiro, the delegates were invited to the Cattete Palace to meet President Getulio Vargas. After waiting two hours and 20 minutes in a palace anteroom, Delegate John L. Lewis grumbled: "I never even kept a coal operator waiting more than two hours." At the meeting a few moments later, Vargas said to Lewis: "You look exactly like your pictures and cartoons." Replied Lewis: "Well, you look just like your pictures. I'd know you anywhere." The exchange ended when Vargas added, "They tell me you like...
FEBRUARY-News. In Rio de Janeiro, after a snake bit him, Francisco Feliciano chased and caught the viper, bit it to death...
...talked-about books of the year: Madison Cooper's Sironia, Texas, a 1,731-page Texas-town saga which seemed to prove that Ferber's view had been right in the first place; Tom Lea's The Wonderful Country, singing Lea's love of his Rio Grande country, north & south of the border; and The Devil Rides Outside, by Texan John Griffin, in which a young American finds his own City of God in a French monastery...