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...Contrary to what you say in "The Blues Is How It Is" [Sept. 2], I am not retired. I am playing harmonica at the Copacabana three nights a week and at Mother Blues one night...
With cliches flapping up like frightened pigeons, the campaign finally ended last week. In the great banquet hall of Rio's Copacabana Palace Hotel, Costa e Silva peered from behind his green-tinted sunglasses while 450 captains of industry pretended that the filet mignon on their plates was the only beef they had with the government. "An unforgettable night," proclaimed the president of the National Confederation of Industries. "A his toric moment," added the president of the National Confederation of Agriculture. "The moral attributes of Your Excellency, Senhor Marshal," said the president of the National Confederation of Industrial Workers...
Under the new law, Travancas' men also have the right to search for "exterior signs" of wealth-which might indicate, for example, that the owner of a $75,000 Copacabana Beach apartment really earned more than the $2,000 he declared on his tax form. At present, revenue agents are combing through membership lists in yacht and race-track clubs, checking the resources of Brazilian tourists abroad. Hostesses who once boasted about their cuisine now beg society columnists not to mention the delicacies served at their dinners...
...guiding tours. About all he remembers of his formal education is that "I learned how to add and subtract and multiply." That apparently was enough. Today, at 65, Tjurs has gathered together Brazil's biggest hotel chain; among his six hotels are Rio's 220-room Excelsior Copacabana, Sao Paulo's 17-story Jaragua and the 420-room Nacionál in Brasilia. All of this grew from the time when, at age 40, he took the last $1,000 that he had salvaged from a bankrupt São Paulo saloon, invested it in a small...
...ghetto backyard in Detroit, Diana Ross, then 14, Mary Wilson, 14, and Florence Ballard, 15, made their first profession al appearance. They sang Your Cheat ing Heart, and afterward they passed the hat. The take: "Darn near $3," says Diana's mother. Last week at Manhattan's Copacabana, home range of the big names (Sinatra, Dean Martin), where the big beat is seldom heard, the same rock-'n'-roll trio was doing turn-away business. Diana, Mary and Florence now call themselves the Supremes, and the take is $5,000 a performance...