Word: brazilianizing
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...years since the Brazilian town of Batatais, 300 miles northwest of Rio, had been formally elevated to the official and honorable category of village, and Bishop Luiz Mousinho marked the anniversary last week by blessing 14 brilliant religious murals in the town's new Roman Catholic church. Surprisingly, the paintings were the work of an avowed freethinker and Communist. But the 9,850 townspeople would have no other artist than Candido Portinari, 49, who rose from a lowly birthplace near Batatais to become Brazil's best painter and the area's most admired native...
...Janeiro, President Getulio Vargas ordered a tighter control over the Brazilian Confederation of Dove Fanciers. His decree: people who profess ideologies contrary to the legal regime are henceforth forbidden to raise carrier pigeons...
Announcement of the three-year credit at 3½% annual interest forestalled a repetition of the extraordinary lawsuit of a New York exporter, who attached Brazilian assets in two New York banks to satisfy a $2,515 commercial debt. Enraged Brazilians, who regarded the suit as an affront to their national honor, had calmed down by the time the loan came. In one stroke the Eisenhower Administration had stolen the play from Juan Perón's visit to Chile (see below), and scored a clean-cut success in foreign policy...
...Lombardo, former director of social security and one of the new millionaires of the Alemán administration. Within a few hours the capital buzzed with another name. According to the passenger manifest, it was that of Alemán's great and enduring friend, Brazilian Actress Leonora Amar, whom he had raised to stardom in Mexican films (TIME, Feb. 11, 1946). Handsome Miguel's friendship with the sultry Leonora was well known in Mexico, but previously both the President and the gossip had been discreet...
...sail, the 46½-ft. yawl White Mist, owned and skippered by G. W. Blunt White of Mystic, Conn., crossed the finish line first in the third annual sailing race from Buenos Aires, to win the South Atlantic Blue Ribbon. On a corrected-time, i.e., handicap, basis, two smaller Brazilian yachts, Cairu and Mistral, placed one-two ahead of White Mist...