Word: senhora
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Small World (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.) Edward R. Murrow checks in from his leave of absence long enough to arrange an intercontinental chat between U.S. Poet Robert Frost, British ex-M.P. and Humorist A. P. Herbert, Brazilian Poetess and New York Consul General Senhora Dora Vasconcellos. Subject: Should man quit throwing objects at the moon, and leave it to poets and lovers...
...Janeiro's JORNAL DO BRASIL: Senhora Luce can be certain that the U.S. Senate debate did not in the least affect the Brazilian concept and appreciation of her personally. The predominant opinion, now that we will not have her here with us, is deep disappointment. Brazil's role in Pan-American development would have been ably treated by a diplomat with the extraordinary abilities and superior intelligence of Senhora Luce...
...name was not really Helena but Alice. She was Portuguese, living with her parents in the Brazilian diamond-mining town of Diamantina, and she began to keep her record of everyday happenings in 1893, when she was twelve. In 1942, as Senhora Augusto Mario Caldeira Brant of Rio de Janeiro (her husband twice served as president of the Bank of Brazil), she published her diary in a small edition for friends and family. Famed French Novelist Georges Bernanos saw it and proclaimed it a work of genius. By the time-1952-that U.S. Pulitzer-Prizewinning Poet Elizabeth Bishop went...
...midnight Mass in Rio's Municipal Stadium, jammed to nearly double capacity by the biggest turnout Rio could remember, topping even the most popular football game. Later, when a photographer's flashbulb exploded, a man blind for 27 years cried: "I see a light! Thank you, Nossa Senhora de Fatima!" Churchmen did not claim any miracles for the Lady, but others did, fervently. One man who said that the statue could work miracles was challenged by a skeptic. In the argument that followed, the two men drew their knives. The believer was stabbed to death...
Christmas invariably brought a handsome, if misdirected, selection of cards. All this more than made up for the blank look on the faces of host and hostess when Frank and his wife arrived at parties in response to invitations addressed tc Senhor and Senhora White...