Word: bruno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among the world's other top-rankers are: London's Leon Goossens (brother of the Cincinnati Symphony's Conductor Eugene Goossens); the Boston Symphony's Fernand Gillet; the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's Bruno Labate...
Responsible for Mexico's racing revival is bustling, 40-year-old Bruno Pagliai, onetime California banker whose past enterprises include two famed Hollywood playgrounds: the Agua Caliente race track (now closed for the duration) and the La Playa Hotel at Ensenada. Undaunted by the fact that several other U.S. citizens had tried, with little success, to revive racing in Mexico, Pagliai got the ear of Wall Street Financier Ben ("Sell 'em-Short") Smith, who had developed an interest in horse racing by taking planeloads of friends to Kentucky Derbies. Assured of Smith's enthusiasm, Pagliai then convinced...
...from his job with the NBC Orchestra; 2) Serge Koussevitzky, who until recently (TIME, Dec. 7) was growing extremely restless in Boston over his union trouble with A. F. of M. Boss James Caesar Petrillo; 3) Sir Thomas Beecham, who has not had a steady assignment in years; 4) Bruno Walter...
Though General Bruno is pure fiction, he has his counterpart in mysterious General Gunther Niedenfuhr, onetime German Military Attache in Argentina, subsequently Military Attache in Brazil. About the time that General Bruno was getting his mechanized army set for battle, General Niedenfuhr was bounced back to Berlin with other Axis diplomats in South America. But, like his comic-strip colleague, the General had done some good work for his bosses while in Brazil. Last week Brazilians were beginning to learn what lay behind his ingratiating fagade...
...ultimate goal of all this activity seemed to be the same as General Bruno's efforts: an army which would operate within the country while the Axis invaded from across the South Atlantic. Spy-busting Major Olinto Franca Almeida y Sa,* Police Chief of the State of Sao Paulo, said the Nazi plan was to invade by air last May. The plot was uncovered when the police intercepted a Nazi agent's message. Only the fact that Russia upset the German timetable, guessed the Major, prevented the plot from being carried...