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...Chato wired him: "I am buying ice for your hot head." Vargas won, and nicknamed Wainer "The Prophet." Money poured in from pro-Vargas industrialists and from the Vargas-controlled Bank of Brazil (a reputed $18 million) to buy Wainer a plant and start a new, pro-Vargas paper, Ultima Hora...
Brazil had never seen anything like Ultima Hora (idiomatically: "Up to the Last Minute"). With bright-colored inks on Page One, lavish photographs, six-man reporting teams, cut-rate ads, lotteries and giveaways, Wainer promoted Ultima Hora into top circulation spots in Rio (85,000) and Sao Paulo (90,000). Ungrateful Sammy trained his guns on ex-Boss Chateaubriand's empire (28 newspapers, five magazines, two TV and 19 radio stations), denounced him as a "pirate" and "international rat," ridiculed him in front-page cartoons. Chateaubriand seethed, and bided his time...
Pick up any newspaper--from the New York Times to the New Orleans Times-Picayune to Ultima Hora in Lima, Peru. If there's a story in it about Radcliffe, it didn't get there without an official okay from the Radcliffe administration...
Nearly 1000 listeners gathered in New Lecture Hall yesterday to hear Spender read selections from his works, including 'Ultima Ratio Regnum" and a long in complete poem, titled "Vienna." He was introduced to the audience by Theodore Spencer, Boylston professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, who termed Spender "one of those rare Englishmen who is also a good European...
...probably the only music critic in the world who insists that he has to carry a revolver. It is purely a matter of self-defense: in the 13 years he has been in Chile, during which time he has written criticism for Santiago's La Hora and Ultima Hora, he has been set upon 14 times by irate readers who objected to his acid words. The only man ever wounded by his Smith & Wesson was Goldschmidt; he shot himself in the hand while cleaning it. Usually it has been a beefy baritone or basso who socked him, although...