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...smokers, inhaling more air than they liked last week, there was a sardonic note of cheer. So many cigarets were being diverted into the black market that racketeers grumbled that prices were falling. In Manhattan, where tobacconists guessed that half of all the popular-brand cigarets were being sold over the ceiling, black market wholesale prices were down 30? a carton from the peak...
Brazilian newspapermen had waited seven years for a collective interview with their Dictator-President, Dr. Getulio Dornelles Vargas. Last week, in Brazil's summer capital, over 100 reporters and editors jampacked a small, ornate salon, waiting patiently to question Dr. Vargas about the "Additional Act" - his brand-new constitutional amendment...
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...long-haired and hollow-cheeked as ever, 157-lb. Gunder the Wunder had added an American "O.K." to his vocabulary and, more important, he had a brand-new public-relations approach. Far from being the uncooperative, stubborn Swede who visited the U.S. two years ago, this time he seemed bent on pleasing. Said he to reporters in his best Garbo accent: "Because you have been waiting so long for me ... I shall run Saturday" (just 50 hours after stepping off the ship). He knew, of course, that it meant almost certain defeat in the I.C.4-A Invitation Mile...
...liberated Leyte, where Filipinos have been singing God Bless the Philippines to the tune of Irving Berlin's God Bless America, a soldier troupe performance of Composer Berlin's This Is the Army last week tried out a brand new number in the U.S. idiom: Heaven Watch the Philippines...