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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week TIME Correspondent William White called on Vargas at his farm not far from the Argentine border. White found the short-legged little man deeply tanned from days in the saddle, a picture of health at 65. O Presidente wore a faded blue shirt tucked into a gaucho's baggy blue bomachos...
...presidency?" Vargas squirmed. He twisted a box of matches around in his hands. He looked out the door. Finally he said: "The Brazilian people are suffering, particularly the workers. The crisis, in time, may pass." And then, as an afterthought: "Perhaps they need a younger man than I." In short, Getulio Vargas did not answer the question as bluntly as the posters...
...murals, for which he is most famed, are often as vast as novels, while the paintings of most of his contemporaries are short stories at best. Among Rivera's own mural-painting countrymen, none can match either his native drive or his European-trained virtuosity...
...Umbaugh experiment is being financed by Tom Slick, millionaire oilman, cattleman and inventor (TIME, Jan. 28, 1946), through his Foundation for Applied Science at the Essar (short for Scientific Research) Ranch. When the project was formally unveiled there last week, Foundation Director Dr. Harold Vagtborg optimistically gloated that it might be possible "to convert all cattle herds into registered stock of the finest quality in a single generation...
Cavanaugh, freshman second baseman last year from Roxbury Latin, is the only new face in the infield. Dunn started the 1948 season with the varsity, was moved down to the jayvees, and then was promoted again in time to play in the Yale game. Maunino played short-stop until he was injured midway in the season. Cavanaugh replaces Myles Huntington, out for the season with a broken collar bone. Coulson has lost about 20 pounds since last season and will be a vastly improved fielder...