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...month's wages contributed by each member of the samba club. The money comes from savings, from stickups, from the world's oldest profession, from pay-as-you-guzzle drinking parties. But everyone contributes, and everyone wants to dance. Says Salgueiro's Carnival Director Joaquim Casemiro, known to his fellows as "Droopy Drawers": "I direct them only with a whistle. I don't need a gun or a knife. I've never had to shoot anyone yet in Salgueiro to get them to dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Night of Glory | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

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