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...notable achievement of the Met's Manager Edward Johnson has been to hire lookers as well as singers. No other opera house of comparable artistic standards boasts such svelte and glamorous ladies as Czech Soprano Jarmila Novotna, Brazilian Soprano Bidu Sayao, U. S. Sopranos Helen Jepson, Grace Moore, Hilda Burke, Rose Bampton and Eleanor Steber (a West Virginia debutante of this month), U. S. Contraltos Risë Stevens and Gladys Swarthout...
Regarding the letter about "Rubber Rebound" in TIME, Nov. 25, the writer is highly misinformed in inferring that the Brazilian newspaper O Globo is Nazi-controlled. Of Rio's 22 newspapers, not more than three are controlled by the Germans; the rest are either neutral or pro-Ally. Herbert Moses, the highly respected president of the Brazilian Press Association, and treasurer-director of O Globo, is the son of an American mother and is a stanch friend of England and the U. S. His newspaper reflects this attitude...
...favorite sport of the Germans. Ashore in Manhattan last week was Captain Cornelius Arundele, master of the freighter Haxby, which a German raider sank off Bermuda last April. He spent 64 days aboard the enemy as a prisoner. In that time he saw her fly the Greek, Brazilian and Dutch flags. Of "much more than 10,000 tons," she had a telescopic funnel and a lot of light steel plates which she shifted like scenery, to change her silhouette from day to day. Her superstructure was repeatedly repainted. Provisioned to cruise three years, she had slipped out of Hamburg with...
Latin-American newspapers do not encourage women reporters. But a Brazilian newspaper, Diario de Noticias of Rio de Janeiro, last fortnight broke with Latin tradition, hired a female columnist. Said proud Diario: "This admirable woman, whose fascinating personality does not vanish behind the radiance of her husband's great importance, is not only a fine companion for the President but has a keen and brilliant mind and a generous heart. ..." Name of the column: My Day, by Eleanor Roosevelt. Flown to Rio thrice a week, My Day appears in Diario in both English and Portuguese, runs seven days behind...
Having revolutionized Brazil's shopping habits, Jim Marshall has also cracked Brazilian society. Sunday afternoon Jim serves gin and tonic to his friends in his big 15-room home at swanky Ipanema Beach...