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Dutra was born 64 years ago this week in the frontier town of Cuiabá in cattle-raising Mato Grosso. He describes his father as "a small businessman and later a public functionary-but always poor." Young Eurico joined the army at 16 and wangled an appointment to its Preparatory School of Tactics at Porto Alegre. After graduation, he moved on to Rio's Escóla Militar, only to be expelled seven months later for his part in a student rebellion against compulsory smallpox vaccination. A government amnesty let him return. Two years after graduation...
Switzerland's studious, bespectacled Hazy Osterwald led a "moldy fig" (bop-eese for Dixieland) combo into town, proclaiming that his life was devoted "to imposing good music on the Swiss dance hall." He got more sympathy than applause. But French Clarinetist Claude Luter, who learned his style from old King Oliver records, got his usual stamping raves. And when Gösta Törner's All-Star...
Joseph Levitch) were the talk of the town. Last week, almost three years later, Martin & Lewis were the talk of show business. At Manhattan's copious Copacabana, the team had just smashed an eight-year house record for receipts-and in the depth of a general nightclub depression. The first Martin & Lewis movie, My Friend Irma, in which they have supporting roles, would be shown this fall in first-run houses. NBC, which had just handed them a Sunday night radio hot spot (6:307 p.m., E.D.T.), was dishing out over $10,000 a week to break them into...
...Stanstead County, Sancton filed a story to his old paper in Montreal. Correspondent Sancton scooped Editor Sancton by two days. But Journal readers were more interested in news of abiding matters-the farms, the factories, the water supply and the schools. Says happy Editor Sancton: "You visit a small town and you say, 'This is quaint, this is the Middle Ages.' But after a while, you realize that this is the way most people live. This is the normal...
Sancton is no newcomer to either Stanstead County or the Journal. He first came to the leisurely little town of Rock Island (pop. 1,395)-in the rolling, Green Mountain country along the Quebec-Vermont border-to attend Stanstead College in the '30s. As a student, he covered college activities for the Journal. When the college's main building burned down, Sancton flashed the news to Montreal's Gazette. He got a byline and his first full-time reporter...