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...urgent had been the summons that Jacob Surits, suave, goateed Soviet Ambassador to Brazil, remembered only after boarding the plane that he had to be in Rio for the big Embassy reception on Nov. 7. At Belém he turned back for Rio, set off again for the U.S. after the party. His mission, like that of other Soviet diplomats in Latin America*: to get orders from Foreign Minister Molotov. For Molotov it was a chance to take stock of the first year and a half of the new Stalinist line in Latin America...
...steaming Amazon basin snakes sloughed their skins and downriver at Belém (pronounced Beleng) a two weeks' festival in honor of Our Lady of Nazareth, observed by the eating of barbecued beef, drinking rum aged in coconuts and dropping contributions into Our Lady's donkey cart, had just ended. South on the Hump, in the states of Pernambuco and Baía, the spring rains brought up tender green sprouts of sugar cane and tobacco, promising record crops...
...Loew-Lewin Productions announced that Ernst was the $3,000 prizewinner in a "Temptation of St. Anthony" contest. The producers had persuaded twelve apostles of Modern Art to paint what Anthony saw. (Each artist got $500 for trying.) Ernst's winning picture will be used in a movie, Bel Ami or The History of a Scoundrel, starring George Sanders and having nothing to do with Anthony. It was not the first time Messrs. Loew and Lewin had brought art to Hollywood. Their Picture of Dorian Gray centered around a worm-crawling canvas painted by the Albright brothers, to portray...
Married. Mervyn LeRoy, 45, whose cigarish direction has turned out many a garish cinemoneymaker (Little Caesar, Tugboat Annie, Wizard of Oz); and Kathryn Prest Byfield Spiegel, 41, Chicago socialite; both for the third time; in Bel-Air, California...
...sleep with mystery stories. But he had to give that up because his eyes have become weak and he is too vain to wear glasses. When the insomnia is particularly bad he gets up, dresses and spends the night walking the streets and up & down the hills of Bel Air mulling over business problems...