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...Janeiro Bureau Chief George de Carvalho, with New York Photographer Anthony Linck, traveled 10,000 miles for almost a month by motor launch, native dugout canoe, truck, jalopy and a variety of barely airworthy small planes, visited scores of river towns, oil and mineral exploration camps, pioneer farms, mines, missionary stations and Indian villages deep in the jungle. Once, to photograph a tribe of Mato Grosso Indians, De Carvalho and Linck hiked nine miles through thick jungle and at dusk hiked out again, preceded by a native guide armed with a flashlight and rifle. At the camp of a seismographic...
...necks and hips. At some stops, their presents of candy, fishhooks and pocket mirrors were rewarded by exhibitions of war dances and feats of bravery. One great problem was food and drink. They sat down to meals of diced wild turtle, and wild boar hash ("Good, too," said De Carvalho), but politely declined offerings of broiled green lizard and a drink called chicha, which native women made by chewing corn, spitting it into a bowl and giving the product time to ferment...
TIME Correspondent George de Carvalho arrived at Rio de Janeiro's Central Jail to cover the capture of slippery Financier Lowell Birrell, and found the police studying earlier TIME stories on Birrell, easily convinced them that he should be allowed to interview the prisoner, who put on a tie for the occasion. De Carvalho's exclusive interview aroused the ire of Rio newspapermen, none of whom had been allowed to see Birrell. But like newsmen everywhere, they did not let professional jealousy stand in the way of a story, reproduced TIME articles and besieged De Carvalho for more...
...month after Baby discovered her, he asked for Ana Maria's hand in marriage. Papa de Carvalho protested that "Senhor Pignatari has lived a very full life, and my daughter is only a child," but he soon gave in. That night, Baby called for champagne, slipped a jeweled ring on Ana's finger. Then Baby flew off to Rome. The gossip that bounced back might have shaken a less eternal love: Baby arm in arm with Princess Doris Pignatelli. Baby dating Actress Rosanna Schiaffino. Baby dispatching red roses to former Queen Soraya of Iran. Baby dancing with...
Francisco ("Baby") Pignatari, 42, current No. 1 Playboy of the Western World, met Ana Maria de Carvalho, 18, during Brazil's carnival in lazy, colonial Salvador, capital of Bahia state. Disguised as an Arabian sheik, he was tossing ice cubes and confetti, brawling in nightclubs, when he spotted eye-filling (Miss Bahia, 1958) Ana Maria right on Salvador's main stem. Baby stopped, whistled, shouted, "Hey, beautiful!" But Ana Maria, blue-blooded daughter of a wealthy Bahian cattle rancher, industrialist and political potentate, sniffed: "Impertinent and presumptuous...