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...Quadros has mastered a wide repertory of such theatrical tricks. He snuffs out a cheap cigarette before beginning a speech, tucks the butt behind his ear, then lights it again when he is done talking. He calls himself "the poorest of Brazilian politicians because I am the most honest." In keeping with that role, he goes about clad in a brink-of-tears manner and threadbare, ill-fitting clothes...
...team will be hurt by the loss of Alex Haegler, last year's regular center half. Haegler, a Brazilian, is taking flying lessons to fulfill his country draft deferment requirements. Munro felt he would not get much strength from the mediocre '57 team to make up graduation losses...
Guitar Recital (Luise Walker; Epic). Solo works by such bygone masters of the classical guitar as Fernando Sor and Francisco Tarrega and a three-movement Concertino for Guitar and Orchestra by the contemporary Brazilian composer, Guido Santorsola, accompanied by the Vienna Symphony under Paul Sacher. The big work is ideal for records, where the quiet colors of the solo instrument can be clearly heard and its gently modern effects fall pleasantly...
...Hotel Gloria. Ten minutes after her arrival, the manager, urgently summoned by protesting guests to Suite 901, was greeted with a flying glass of whisky and a frenzied Ava smashing everything in sight. Ordered to leave, Ava soon turned up at another hotel, next day played hostess to the Brazilian press. Said she, demurely: "I'm happy to be here. I've been longing to see Rio all my life." Asked a reporter: "Were you drunk last night?" Replied Ava, sipping her third whisky: "No indeed. Never drink." A day later, she left Brazil...
Taking time out from his business with the Writers' International Congress, Author William (A Fable) Faulkner decided to sightsee among the well-known Brazilian tourist spots, ended up in the São Paulo snake farm with a full-grown snake coiled around his neck. Calm in the knowledge that, as he has written, "man and his folly . . . will prevail," the Mississippi philosopher declared: "I'm not afraid of snakes. Man is man's most dangerous enemy." Then back to its keeper he handed the snake, which-on close inspection-turned out to be a thoroughly harmless...