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...Love a Deal." Gilbert had tried his hand at making money down in Rio, but it was all kind of small time after Wall Street. Encountering a fruit peddler on Copacabana Beach, he haggled the price of a few oranges down from 20 cruzeiros apiece to 12. "I just love a deal," said Gilbert. He dabbled in beer stocks, pocketed $5,000 as management consultant to a lathe works, ran his stake high enough to move from dismal digs into a Copacabana suite that he leased from a feminine exile named Simone Delamarr, who had been one of King Farouk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Ethics: Return of the Naive | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

...washcloth." Another old movie, Going My Way, is now a TV series (ABC), with Gene Kelly and Leo G. Carroll doing nicely as Father Bing Crosby and Father Barry Fitzgerald. In other seasons, a cassock opera like this one might have stood out like a High Mass in the Copacabana. But many of the new season's heroes are so strong on dynamic positivism that these men in black seem almost sinister by comparison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New Season | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

Each morning, in his extradition-proof haven of Brazil, Edward Mortimer Gilbert, 38, trudges down to take the sun along Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Finance: Picking Up the Pieces | 7/13/1962 | See Source »

Last week, however, the small recovery melted like a snowball on Copacabana beach. The tax-reform bill bogged down. But another bill, full of demagogic appeal, raced through the House. It would forbid foreign firms to sell stocks and bonds in Brazil. It would prohibit foreigners from taking over enterprises "being exploited" by Brazilian capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: The Falling Cruzeiro | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

Married. Ben Gazzara, 31, taut, talented star of Broadway's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Hollywood's Anatomy of a Murder; and Janice Rule, 30, ex-Copacabana chorine who won overnight fame in Broadway's Picnic; he for the second time, she for the third; in San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 8, 1961 | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

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