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...raise the needed funds, Chatô has turned the whole pressure of his 28 newspapers, five magazines, 19 radio stations and two TV transmitters on Brazil's other millionaires. Last week Chatô pulled off his flashiest fund-raising stunt: a fiesta on the cruiser Almirante Tamandaré (once the U.S.S. St. Louis) in Rio Harbor. Piped aboard from gigs and barges came Senators, ministers, governors and industrialists, together with their ladies. Chatô greeted them, fed them Beef Stroganoff and champagne punch, and made a speech...
...diamond-and-aquamarine necklace-which Chatô's news photographers had earlier seen modeled on the lovely neck of Countess Nicole de Kergal, a member of the former royal family of Brazil (see cut). With that, Chatô clambered over the side of the Almirante Tamandaré and flew off to Britain to present the necklace to Queen Elizabeth, leaving Brazil's youth wondering darkly about what they were in for, facing not one, not two, but three Grotons...
Earlier in the week, Brazil had taken up a similar offer to buy the cruisers Philadelphia and St. Louis for $8,600,000. The ships will be rechristened Almirante Barroso and Almirante Tamandaré. Chile also signed to take over the cruisers Brooklyn and Nashville...
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