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Died. Lansing Hatfield, 44, onetime (1941-45) Metropolitan Opera bass-baritone (the king in Aïda), Broadway singer (Sadie Thompson); of cirrhosis of the liver; in Asheville...
...that has made her one of the finest dramatic sopranos on the Continent. Her own feeling about Penelope differed from the majority: "We can be thankful that a modern work is as strong as this. The world goes on. We can't always be singing Salome, Aïda and Rigoletto...
...emergency conferences, and out of the meetings came word that some officers thought it was time to depose Getulio Vargas. But to do that they needed the backing of the army, and to win that they had to convince the army's boss, War Minister General Euclyde Zenobio da Costa. The War Minister vetoed any change. The army, said he, "should guarantee constitutional liberties and Brazil's legally constituted government"-i.e., Vargas should be allowed to serve the remaining 17 months of his term...
...fiery crusade against Communism, corruption and President Getulio Vargas, Rio Journalist Carlos Lacerda has gained tens of thousands of loyal friends, scores of vengeful enemies. The 40-year-old editor of Tribune da Imprensa (circ. 50,000) has been beaten by thugs for criticizing the army, arrested for exposing police graft, jailed four times for political reasons, attacked in his home after accusing a high officer of corruption. Recently a pistol-toting hothead tried but failed to provoke the editor to a duel...
Emanuel Swedenborg was a physicist; in 1716 King Charles XII of Sweden appointed him assessor-extraordinary to the Royal Board of Mines. He was also perhaps the most versatile genius-of-all-trades since Leonardo da Vinci...