Emergency in Sao Paulo

From Rio de Janeiro to Sao Paulo, after a frantic search, went an iron lung. From Buenos Aires, where a Pan American plane made a special stop, to Sao Paulo went Johnson & Johnson's Vice President Andrew Rohlfing, only man within reach who knew how an iron lung was operated. The reason: Getulio Vargas Jr., youngest son of Brazil's President, had suddenly been taken ill in Sao Paulo, was in serious condition with infantile paralysis.

Getulinho ("little Getulio") is perhaps the most promising of President Vargas' three sons. Graduate of Brazil's Escola Nacional de Chymica, he spent four years at Johns Hopkins University as a student of chemical engineering. When stricken last week, popular, modest young Getulio was working in Sao Paulo's Nitro Chymica chemical-manufacturing company. His father and mother rushed to his bedside. Four days after the diagnosis of infantile paralysis President Vargas left for a conference at Natal. From his good friend Franklin D. Roosevelt he could expect deep sympathy and an inspiring example of recovery from the dread illness which had stricken his son.

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